Tanya Reilly
Tanya Reilly is a principal engineer at Datadog and the author of The Staff Engineer’s Path.
Tanya Reilly is a principal engineer at Datadog and the author of The Staff Engineer’s Path. Originally from Ireland, she spent a decade in New York and now lives in sunny New Mexico.
The Staff Engineer’s Path: A Guide For Individual Contributors Navigating Growth and Change: Tanya Reilly in conversation
What does it mean to be a Staff Engineer and how does your role impact your organization?
Luminary Interview with Diane Tang
As you grow as a technical leader, identifying career paths and opportunities can be difficult and you can easily get stuck without knowing what it takes to get you to the next level. So as a Senior IC, how do you get here? What is the job like? How do you map your career map?
How to break out of the thread of doom
Have you ever been stuck in an online conversation that’s going nowhere? Here are three techniques to break out of the ‘thread of doom’: the rollup summary, asking obvious questions and increasing the bandwidth of the conversation.
Having impact in engineering by supporting other people's ideas
How to build an engineering organization that drives ideas from everyone in the team.
Mapping the immovable objects in engineering projects
Accepting what you can't change and changing what you can
Not all engineering leaders are engineering managers
So stop pushing all leaders into management
Sustaining and growing motivation across projects
In this panel, we’ll explore how to sustain motivation across long projects, including how to celebrate victories but also how to quickly bounce-back from any obstacles that occur.
Optimizing the 'glue work' in your team
Your job title says "software engineer", but you seem to spend most of your time in meetings.
