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Ben Collins-Sussman
Engineering Manager, Google, Inc.

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Ben is a member of Google’s Open Source Program Office, working on projects to promote the spread of open source software both inside and outside the company. He is a technical lead for Google Code’s open source project hosting service, and helped port Subversion to Google’s Bigtable technology, which now runs across numerous machines and serves over 90,000 open source repositories. Prior to Google, Ben spent five years with Collabnet as one of the original designers and founders of the Subversion project. He is still active in the Subversion community and is also a co-author of the O’Reilly book “Version Control with Subversion”. He received his B.S. in Mathematics from the University of Chicago, and enjoys speaking with Brian Fitzpatrick at various conferences on topics both serious and irreverent.

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1:45pm Wednesday, 07/22/2009

Programmer Insecurity and the Genius Myth

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Location: Exhibit Hall 3

Ben Collins-Sussman (Google, Inc.), Brian Fitzpatrick (Google, Inc.)

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(3.88, 16 ratings)

A pervasive elitism hovers in the background of collaborative software development: everyone secretly wants to be seen as a genius. In this talk, we discuss how to avoid this trap and gracefully exchange personal ego for personal growth and super-charged collaboration. We'll also examine how software tools affect social behaviors, and how to successfully manage the growth of new ideas. Read more.

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Ben Collins-Sussman Engineering Manager, Google, Inc.