Sami Farhat
Sami Farhat is a Senior Staff Engineer at Back Market, a French unicorn promoting the circular economy through the resale of second-hand products.
Sami Farhat is a Senior Staff Engineer at Back Market, a French unicorn promoting the circular economy through the resale of second-hand products. Growing through the ranks, he has taken on increasing responsibilities and cross-functional roles, notably by leading the implementation of Platform Engineering through Backstage, coordinating both a Cloud migration and the backend’s extraction to a microservices architecture. Lately, he has been focusing on growing the Staff Engineering community both at Back Market and in french tech ecosystem.
How to overcome feeling isolated as a senior engineering leader
Last month, we brought together a panel of engineering leaders to dive into the realities of leadership loneliness and share actionable strategies to combat it.
Filling the Void: Operating as a Staff Engineer in a Leaderless Scope
In this talk, we will detail our experiences as Staff Engineers functioning as Tech Leads, Glues and Facilitators in a leaderless role. We’ll discuss the real-world problems we faced, our solutions, and the lessons learned that allowed us to grow as leaders and as an organisation.
