Joy is a Principal Software Engineer at Split, leading our backend team from a technical perspective. Prior to Split, she worked at Box. As a software engineer and as an employee of Split, Joy has extensive experience with feature flags and experimentation and many of the different use-cases. At both Split and Box, she has led efforts around splitting monoliths into microservices, revamping authorization frameworks, creating REST API standards, audit logging and more. In addition to designing software and writing a lot of code, she also maintains a blog: https://medium.com/@jkebertz. In her free time, she does a lot of travelling, reading, and running ridiculously long distances (mostly on trails).
How to get promoted beyond staff engineer
This month, we’ll be discussing how to promote to the next staff+ level in your organization.
Influencing Through Getting Your Carrots In a Row
In this talk, I will go through some of the common incentives and motivators as well as real examples that I’ve encountered.
How much should staff+ engineers code?
Joy Ertz discusses some of the pros and cons of continuing to code, along with how some of Joy and her peers have thought through and continue to think through this decision.
Feature flag use cases you haven't heard about yet
Come learn how you can leverage feature flags to help remove dead code, test the parity of new code, evaluate the cost of a new technology, and more.
To code or not to code: What's the right balance for Staff+ engineers?
How much should you be coding at the Staff+ level?
Making a bigger impact through collaboration as a senior individual contributor
How can working with peers lead to individual career progression?
There and back again: why I entered and left management
Explore horizontal and diagonal role changes with a career lattice.
