Patrick Shields is a technical leader, weary dad, and enthusiastic but not necessarily skilled musician. He has worked as a software engineer in companies big and small, most recently as the Chief Architect at CircleCI as the company grew from 50 engineers to over 200. His professional interests are distributed systems and functional programming, though lately he thinks even more about communication, framing, and collaboration. On a good day, he tears up a big problem into a pile of smaller ones.
Leading in context
Patrick Shields explores why Staff+ roles are rarely simple or static, how to adapt your role when things change, and what it means to grow in your own unique path.
Understanding the role as a Staff engineer
How to define, develop and deliver in your role on the technical track.
Technical strategy power chords
This talk will be most useful for folks just getting started with technical strategy, but even virtuosos may get a useful tip or two.
Vault and Security as a Service
Over the past ten years, we’ve seen a dramatic shift in the architecture of service-oriented systems.
