Hi 👋🏼, I'm Steve Francia

You’ve probably run my code today. Cobra powers kubernetes, docker, and GitHub’s gh. Hugo builds millions of websites. Together, my personal projects have earned 195K+ GitHub stars.

I’ve spent three decades creating the developer stack: MongoDB’s developer experience, container standards at Docker, leading Go at Google, AI at Two Sigma. The tech was never the point. Here I write about the human stack: building products, teams, and communities that last.

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What Should a Modern Practical Programming Language Look Like

What Should a Modern Practical Programming Language Look Like

Keynote delivered at The Landing Festival – Berlin. This presentation describes the many …

Product Management for Everyone

Product Management for Everyone

An interactive workshop developed for and given at the Landing Festival in Berlin 2019. This …

Go – On The Shoulders of Giants

Go – On The Shoulders of Giants

This presentation was developed for Curry On and delivered as the closing keynote of the …

演讲:Go, a global phenomenon (英语演讲)

演讲:Go, a global phenomenon (英语演讲)

This presentation was given in 深圳市 China, July 2018 as part of the InfoQ ArchSummit conference. …

New Go Branding Strategy

New Go Branding Strategy

I joined the GoTime podcast and told them EVERYTHING about Go’s new branding strategy (and …

Drupal and the secret of my success

Drupal and the secret of my success

As my tenure on the Drupal Association was concluding, I was asked to give the Keynote for …

State of the Go Nation – Gophercon Brasil 2017

State of the Go Nation – Gophercon Brasil 2017

This talk is an overview of the entire Go project. It covers “what we’ve done”, “why we did it” …

State of the Go Nation – Gotham Go 2017

State of the Go Nation – Gotham Go 2017

An overview of the entire Go project. It covers “what we’ve done”, “why we did it” and “where …

State Of The Gopher Nation - Golang UK 2017

State Of The Gopher Nation - Golang UK 2017

I am at GolangUK in London, having just finished giving the opening keynote. I was a bit more …

How to Contribute to Go

How to Contribute to Go

I wrote this presentation with Jessie Frazelle. She made it look very nice and delivered it at …

Life, Liberty, and Golang

Life, Liberty, and Golang

A semi-autobiographical presentation given to the winners of Google’s 2017 Code-in …

Building an Awesome CLI App in Go – OSCON 2017

Building an Awesome CLI App in Go – OSCON 2017

A workshop written and delivered by Steve Francia and Ashley McNamara at OSCON 2017 outlining …

Building an Awesome Cli App in Go – Craft

Building an Awesome Cli App in Go – Craft

A workshop written and delivered by Steve Francia and Ashley McNamara at CRAFT 2017 outlining …

Go Developer Survey

Go Developer Survey

I joined GoTime to talk about the results of the 2016 Go Developer Survey and other interesting …

Hugo goes global

Hugo goes global

Hugo is going Global! Hugo 0.17, released today, is our best and fastest release ever! Hugo …

I’m joining the Go team at Google

I’m joining the Go team at Google

I am honored to share that I have joined Google as a member of the Go team and will be …

the future of the Operating System - LinuxCon 2015 keynote

the future of the Operating System - LinuxCon 2015 keynote

Given as a keynote at LinuxCon + CloudOpen Japan 2015. Linux has become the foundation for …

7 common mistakes in Go – GopherFest 2015

7 common mistakes in Go – GopherFest 2015

Given at GopherFest 2015. This is an updated version of the talk I gave in NYC Nov 14 at …