Hi 👋🏼, I'm Steve Francia

I build tools that make developers’ lives better.

I create open source projects including Hugo and Cobra that have earned over 185K+ GitHub stars.

I’ve shaped the modern developer stack: from architecting MongoDB’s user experience and scaling Go Language at Google, to pioneering container standards at Docker and driving AI at Two Sigma.

Here, I write about the human stack and the art of building products and teams that last.

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 …

What Every Open Source Project Needs

What Every Open Source Project Needs

In the last few years open source has transformed the software industry. From Android to …