Berlin

November 4 & 5, 2024

New York

September 4 & 5, 2024

The OSS maintainer to staff engineer pipeline

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.

Speakers: Nick Hehr

October 09, 2024

While reflecting on my journey to becoming a staff engineer, I realized many of the practices I apply to my day-to-day work come from my time working with open source software maintainers, as a contributor and fellow maintainer.

Guiding OSS projects can teach us about scaling ourselves, influencing technical direction, and collaborating effectively across disparate team members.

In this presentation, I’ll share the lessons learned by me and other open source maintainers that impact how we perform as staff+ engineers and leaders today.