Session + Live Q&A
How Open-Source Engagement Can Accelerate & Solidify Your Staff+ Career
Your first contribution to an open-source project is an event to be celebrated. However, an isolated contribution won't have that impact on your career. The key to such an impact is to create a long-term engagement in the community.
Staff+ engineers usually create their own unique path to the role but rely on a common set of skills like written communication, the ability to focus on work that matters, contribute to the technical direction, and the art of influence. Staff+ engineer careers are not only made of skills; they also need to create impact.
In this presentation, you will learn how open-source contributions and long-term community engagement will help you build and sharpen these
critical skills and increase your impact to land and/or solidify your staff+ career.
Main Takeaways
1 Open-source contribution can help you build and sharpen skills for the Staff+ role;
2 Long-term engagement in open-source communities will help create your list of achievements
3 Connect your skills and accomplishments to make an impact in your company
Speaker
Alex Porcelli
Sr. Principal Engineer @RedHat
Alex Porcelli is a Sr. Principal Engineer at Red Hat, Principal Architect, and Engineer Leader for Business Automation. Professional developer with more than 25 years of experience, Alex has been an active member of many open source communities for more than 15 years with contributions to...
Read moreDate
Tuesday Apr 5 / 04:10PM BST (50 minutes)
Location
Windsor, 5th flr.
Track
Topics
Staff-Plus EngineerLeadershipAdd to Calendar
Add to calendarShare
From the same track
The Secret Strategy for Landing That Staff Engineer Role
Tuesday Apr 5 / 02:55PM BST
Historically, as engineers/developers became more senior, they hit a decision point — do I become a manager or an architect? Architecture tended to be the standard route for folks that wanted to stay focused on tech.As engineering culture evolved, the adoption of dev ops and the cloud has...
Nicky Wrightson
Ventures CTO @blenheimchalcot
Staff-Plus Engineer Path Panel
Tuesday Apr 5 / 05:25PM BST
In this panel we will bring experienced Staff-Plus Engineers to discuss key topics to help you in your career path:What skills you need to develop if you want to be a successful Staff-Plus EngineerWhat can you expect when you reach Staff-Plus status How companies can support and incentivise...
Blanca Garcia Gil
Principal Engineer
Alex Porcelli
Sr. Principal Engineer @RedHat
Nicky Wrightson
Ventures CTO @blenheimchalcot
A CTO That Still Codes: My Tortuous Path to the Staff-Plus Engineer Role
Tuesday Apr 5 / 11:50AM BST
It takes time to figure out what kind of work you want to do, what you are good at, what makes you jump out of bed every day excited with the challenges ahead. For me, the answer was always to get as close to the code as possible. However, my path to a Staff-Plus engineer, like for many others,...
Fabiane Nardon
Data Scientist, Java Champion & CTO @tail_oficia
5 Behaviours to Become an Effective Staff-Plus Engineer
Tuesday Apr 5 / 10:35AM BST
Congratulations on landing your staff-plus role! The first question that many people ask themselves once they land the role is: what does it really mean? The role can vary even within the same organisation.You want to figure out how to be a staff-plus engineer, let alone being effective. How do...
Blanca Garcia Gil
Principal Engineer
Unconference: Staff-Plus
Tuesday Apr 5 / 01:40PM BST
Details coming soon.