Frontend Engineering at Slack with Shruti Kapoor

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🗓️ 6 November 2024

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Slack is a team communication platform that originated as an internal tool within Tiny Speck, a game development company. When the company realized that their game would not achieve commercial success, they changed direction and repurposed the communication tool into a new product which eventually became Slack. Slack was launched in 2013 and is now

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0:00.0	Slack is a team communication platform that originated as an internal tool within TinySpec, a game development company.
0:07.3	When the company realized that their game would not achieve commercial success, they changed direction and repurpose the communication tool into a new product which eventually became Slack.
0:16.5	Slack was launched in 2013 and is now ubiquitous in workplaces around the world.
0:21.5	Shruti Kapoor is a lead member of the technical staff at Slack.
0:25.5	She's worked on features including huddles, the recent redesign of Slack, and currently
0:29.8	works on accessibility.
0:31.7	She joins the podcast to talk about her path into front-end engineering, the front-end tech
0:36.3	stack at Slack, the developer tooling,
0:38.7	how Slack evaluates new technologies, and more.
0:42.5	This episode is hosted by Josh Goldberg, an independent full-time open-source developer.
0:48.0	Josh works on projects in the TypeScript ecosystem, most notably TypeScript ES Slint,
0:53.7	the tooling that enables ESS. Slint and prettier
0:56.2	to run on TypeScript code. Josh is also the author of the O'Reilly Learning TypeScript book,
1:02.1	a Microsoft MVP for developer technologies, and a live code streamer on Twitch. Find Josh on Blue Sky,
1:09.2	Mastodon, Twitter, Twitch, YouTube, and dot com as Joshua K. Goldberg.
1:27.4	It's going pretty good. Thank you for having me on the podcast. Shruti, how's it going?
1:28.5	It's going pretty good.
1:30.0	Thank you for having me on the podcast.
1:32.0	We're excited to have you.
1:33.5	Shruti, can you tell us a little bit about yourself?
1:35.5	How did you get into tech?
1:36.5	Yeah, so actually I got started into tech pretty early, I would say.
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