Track Overview
Staff-Plus Engineer Path
What skills do you need to develop if you want to stay on the technical track to technical lead, staff, or principal? What can you expect when you reach the Staff-Plus status? Will you still code?
While the management track has a plethora of books, courses, company training, and very clear expectations, the Staff-Plus Engineer path still does not receive the same level of support or clarity.
In this track, we will discuss what is expected from a Staff-Plus engineer, the leadership skills needed, the secrets to follow this path, how companies can be prepared to support Staff-Plus engineers, and why the future of our industry depends on it.
Fabiane Nardon
Data Scientist, Java Champion & CTO @tail_oficiaFrom this track
A CTO That Still Codes: My Tortuous Path to the Staff-Plus Engineer Role
Tuesday May 17 / 10:00AM EDT
It takes time to figure out what kind of work you want to do, what you are good at, what makes you jump out of bed every day excited with the challenges ahead. For me, the answer was always to get as close to the code as possible. However, my path to a Staff-Plus engineer, like for many others,...
Fabiane Nardon
Data Scientist, Java Champion & CTO @tail_oficia
5 Behaviours to Become an Effective Staff-Plus Engineer
Tuesday May 17 / 11:10AM EDT
Congratulations on landing your staff-plus role! The first question that many people ask themselves once they land the role is: what does it really mean? The role can vary even within the same organisation.You want to figure out how to be a staff-plus engineer, let alone being effective. How do...
Blanca Garcia Gil
Principal Engineer
The Secret Strategy for Landing That Staff Engineer Role
Tuesday May 17 / 12:20PM EDT
Historically, as engineers/developers became more senior, they hit a decision point — do I become a manager or an architect? Architecture tended to be the standard route for folks that wanted to stay focused on tech.As engineering culture evolved, the adoption of dev ops and the cloud has...
Nicky Wrightson
Ventures CTO @blenheimchalcot
How Open-Source Engagement Can Accelerate & Solidify Your Staff+ Career
Tuesday May 17 / 01:30PM EDT
Your first contribution to an open-source project is an event to be celebrated. However, an isolated contribution won't have that impact on your career. The key to such an impact is to create a long-term engagement in the community.Staff+ engineers usually create their own unique path to the...
Alex Porcelli
Sr. Principal Engineer @RedHat
Speakers from this track
Fabiane Nardon
Data Scientist, Java Champion & CTO @tail_oficia
Fabiane is a computer scientist with many years of experience in large information systems with huge amounts of data. She was chief architect of the Sao Paulo Healthcare Information System, considered the largest JavaEE application in the world and winner of the 2005 Duke's Choice Award. She...
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Blanca Garcia Gil
Principal Engineer
Blanca Garcia Gil is a Principal Engineer.She has worked in the Data Platform team at the BBC, where she built highly scalable data ingestion pipelines and led teams improving access to data in the data warehouse and data visualisation.Prior to the BBC she held a variety of roles: web...
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Nicky Wrightson
Ventures CTO @blenheimchalcot
Nicky has worked as an engineer for over 20 years over many industries. She is currently working as Ventures CTO for Blenheim Chalcot, a venture builder which believes in investing more than just funds but investing knowledge and experience, ideas and infrastructure to build new sustainable...
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Alex Porcelli
Sr. Principal Engineer @RedHat
Alex Porcelli is a Sr. Principal Engineer at Red Hat, Principal Architect, and Engineer Leader for Business Automation. Professional developer with more than 25 years of experience, Alex has been an active member of many open source communities for more than 15 years with contributions to...
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Track Host
Fabiane Nardon
Data Scientist, Java Champion & CTO @tail_oficia
Fabiane is a computer scientist with many years of experience in large information systems with huge amounts of data. She was chief architect of the Sao Paulo Healthcare Information System, considered the largest JavaEE application in the world and winner of the 2005 Duke's Choice Award. She...
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