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A welcome to StaffPlus Live from your hosts Tanya Reilly and Blanca Garcia Gil.

11:40 ET 15 mins

Career paths, progression, promotion IC Leadership Career ladders

Role and Influence: The IC trajectory beyond Staff

As you become an increasingly senior IC, subtle changes in the scope of your role shape the kinds of influence you can have and are expected to have

Featuring:

Yonatan Zunger
Yonatan Zunger
Distinguished Engineer Twitter
11:55 ET 40 mins

Career paths, progression, promotion IC Leadership Career ladders

What is senior IC? Flavours of technical leadership

Although the Senior IC ladder is starting to become more defined why aren’t more people talking about this shift, and what does leadership actually look like as Senior IC?

Featuring:

Matthew Hawthorne
Matthew Hawthorne
Independent Software Consultant Supreme Informatics
Keavy McMinn
Keavy McMinn
Org Tech Lead Stripe
Glen Mailer
Glen Mailer
Staff Software Engineer Geckoboard
Silvia Botros
Silvia Botros
Principal Engineer Box
Derek Slife
Derek Slife
Principal Software Engineer Peloton
12:35 ET 10 mins

Career paths, progression, promotion

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?

Featuring:

Diane Tang
Diane Tang
Google Fellow Google
Tanya Reilly
Tanya Reilly
Principal Software Engineer Squarespace
12:50 ET 15 min

Break - 15 minutes

13:00 ET 15 mins

Communication & relationships Mentoring, coaching & feedback

Live long and prosper as a senior IC

In this chat, we’ll explore how Vulcan logic can inform communicating and acting ethically.

Featuring:

Alice Li
Alice Li
Staff Engineer Squarespace
13:15 ET 15 mins

Mentoring, coaching & feedback

The delegation equation

In this storytelling session Leslie Chapman, Distinguished Engineer, will explore the right ways and times to delegate, and the pitfalls of not delegating properly.

Featuring:

Leslie Chapman
Leslie Chapman
Engineering Fellow Comcast
13:30 ET 10 mins

Career paths, progression, promotion

Luminary Interview with Lea Kissner

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.

Featuring:

Lea Kissner
Lea Kissner
Head of Privacy Engineering Twitter
Blanca Garcia Gil
Blanca Garcia Gil
Lead Analytics Engineer topi
13:5 ET 35 mins

Break

14:25 ET 40 mins

Leadership skills

Project Execution: Setting-up a cross-team project for success

In this panel, we’ll be focusing on successful strategies for landing big projects. We’ll discuss the principles of how to plan, conceptualize, and deliver big projects.

Featuring:

Andrew Hao
Andrew Hao
Staff Engineer YouTube
Ras Kasa Williams
Ras Kasa Williams
Principal Software Engineer Intuit
Colm MacCárthaigh
Colm MacCárthaigh
VP, Distinguished Engineer AWS
Nicky Wrightson
Nicky Wrightson
Principal Engineer
Tammy Bryant Butow
Tammy Bryant Butow
Principal Site Reliability Gremlin
15:05 15 mins

Technical direction & strategy Scaling software & systems

Scaling Incident Management: How we grew Google Meet 50x during COVID19

This talk will cover how we organized the work -- human, technical, and organizational -- needed to prevent outages while we strove to keep ahead of pandemic-driven explosive product growth, and we’ll apply it to future long-running, large-scale incidents.

Featuring:

Samantha Schaevitz
Samantha Schaevitz
Principal Engineer Google
15:20 ET 15 mins

Technical direction & strategy

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.

Featuring:

Patrick Shields
Patrick Shields
Staff Engineer Stripe
15:35 ET 15 mins

Scaling software & systems

To kill it with fire, or not to kill it with fire?

This talk explores the technical, organizational, cultural, and psychological factors that matter when we choose between full rewrites or incremental change.

Featuring:

Laura Nolan
Laura Nolan
Principal Software Engineer Stanza
15:45 ET 15 min

Break - 15 minutes

16:00 ET 40 mins

Communication & relationships

Navigating the manager <> senior IC relationship

In this panel, we’ll explore the senior IC <> manager relationship, thinking about how to create a mutually beneficial partnership.

Featuring:

Sarah Milstein
Sarah Milstein
VP of Engineering Daily
Audrei Drummond
Audrei Drummond
Senior Staff Backend Engineer Slack
Tramale Turner
Tramale Turner
SVP Engineering ActionIQ
Igor Karpovich
Igor Karpovich
Senior Principal Engineer Skyscanner
16:45 ET 10 mins

Career paths, progression, promotion

Luminary Interview with Coraline Ada Ehmke

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.

Featuring:

Coraline Ada Ehmke
Coraline Ada Ehmke
Founder and Executive Director The Organization for Ethical Source
Blanca Garcia Gil
Blanca Garcia Gil
Lead Analytics Engineer topi
16:55 ET 15 mins

Professional development Career ladders

So you're Staff+ ... now what?

This talk will cover how to define your development journey as a Senior IC, figuring out what you should be working on, how to set your goals, and keep track of your progress.

Featuring:

Sabrina Leandro
Sabrina Leandro
Principal Product Engineer Intercom
17:10 ET 5 mins

Wrap up

That's a wrap!