Moneyball on the Keyboard: Scouting Talented Developers

The central premise of Moneyball is that the collected wisdom of baseball insiders is subjective and flawed. Like baseball, the tech industry has a poor history of evaluating talent by favoring biased perspectives over objective analysis. As a baseball scout turned web developer and team lead, I will explore how the lessons I learned in my former career can help surface undervalued skills to enable us all to make better hiring decisions.