Denise Schlesinger

Denise Schlesinger is a highly experienced tech professional with extensive expertise in large-scale systems architecture, software and product development. She is a specialist in re-architecting products to support high transaction applications and has a proven track record of designing complete architectures for cloud-based SaaS products. Denise is also an expert in defining technical strategy and roadmap for distributed applications ensuring high availability and scalability. She has worked on mixed technologies projects including ML + Big Data and web applications, focusing on performance and scalability. Denise also has a passion for coding and has a wealth of experience in TDD and CI/CD.

Denise has held various leadership positions in a number of organisations in the technology industry, including VP R&D at Novarize, R&D Manager at TG-17, R&D Director at Natural Intelligence, and VP R&D at Phenome Networks. She has also served as a Software Architect at Kenshoo and as a Tech Lead at Conduit and Clarizen. Denise is an advocate of creating R&D, quality assurance, and implementation methodologies and processes to support a demanding customer base and highly aggressive business goals.

Aside from her professional life, Denise is an avid blogger and enjoys writing about building huge scale distributed systems. She has a strong interest in emerging technologies and frameworks, and in enabling teams to grow by granting autonomy and creating a safe environment with permission to fail.