The more experience you gain as a technical leader, whether an individual contributor, a tech lead/lead dev or in a management role, the more varied the roles seem to get. Almost every CTO seems to have a different flavour of the role, VP Eng can mean multiple different things, and it isn’t even consistent whether Staff or Principal is regarded as more senior! Amongst this contradiction and complexity, how can we develop ourselves and others?
Meri is a geek, a manager, and a manager of geeks. She’s a CTO and also runs micro-consultancy ChromeRose, helping digital & technical teams be brilliant.
Discover how lessons from open source software maintenance shape effective staff engineers. This talk explores key insights on scaling, influence, and collaboration learned from OSS projects.
n this talk, Mitra Raman will take a look at the many paths that engineers can take on their leadership journey.
While the specifics of the job can vary widely, Will Larson has famously categorized the Staff+ experience into four archetypes: Tech Lead, Architect, Solver, and the Right Hand.
This month, we’ll be discussing how to promote to the next staff+ level in your organization.