Ed Cudahy is the Sr. Director of Platform Engineering at Condé Nast where he is leading the effort to create a new content publishing platform built with node.js. Along with his team he is trying to leapfrog other attempts to reinvent editorial platforms and help move Condé Nast ahead of the pack.

After over 15 years in the web application world he has worked in a variety of tech stacks from Java and Scala to Rails and now node.js. He has embraced the fact that everything will always change and tries to design and build systems for that reality while attempting to accomplish the difficult task of making something complex simple. Over the years he has become passionate about how to build and organize development teams and how technology changes and other factors impact how you create your organization and is always looking to experiment with something new.