Panel: Staff+ Engineering in Practice

What are the skills you need to develop if you want to stay on the technical track to technical lead, staff, or principal? What will it take to thrive in this type of role?


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Sven Reimers

System Engineer @Airbus Defence & Space

Sven Reimers is an industrial engineer with over 25 years of experience in designing and implementing distributed systems which have a focus in the engineering domain. He was the lead software architect for a system and network management solution for satellite communication networks, which received the Duke'c Choice award. He currently works on ground segment software for earth observation satellite systems. He is author of several scientific articles, co-author of some Java community driven books and is a long term member of the program committee of the JavaOne conference. He was chosen a Java Champion by his peers. Currently, he works as an eXpert for functional chain software architecture for earth observation systems at Airbus Defence and Space

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Speaker

Loiane Groner

Development Manager @Citibank

Loiane Groner is a Development Manager at Citibank and has authored books for Packt Publishing. Google Developer Expert in Angular, Microsoft MVP in Developer Technologies, Oracle ACE, Java Champion, and speaker at tech conferences. In her spare time, she loves contributing to the community, and she publishes tech videos on Youtube and creates free programming courses at https://loiane.training.

 

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Speaker

Jitesh Gosai

Principal Tester @BBC

Jitesh Gosai has 20 years of experience, working with various companies enabling them to build, test and release at scale. He is currently a Principal Tester at the BBC in the iPlayer & Sounds department, working with Mobile, TV and Web teams.  His core aim is to create a Quality Culture by helping teams build quality into their products. In his free time, he likes to speak about his experiences at conferences all over Europe and blogs regularly at https://www.jitgo.uk/blog and tweets @jitgo 

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Erin Schnabel

Distinguished Engineer @RedHat

Erin Schnabel (@ebullientworks) is a Distinguished Engineer and maker of things at Red Hat. She is a Java Champion, with over 25 years under her belt as a developer, technical leader, architect and advocate, and she strongly prefers being up to her elbows in code. Erin learns (and teaches) by coding ridiculous things, like "Monster Combat" (https://github.com/ebullient/monster-combat), an application that makes monsters fight each other to explore application metrics; "Pockets", a command-line application that works with relational data (https://github.com/ebullient/pockets-cli); and “Game On! Text Adventure” (https://gameontext.org) for exploring cloud native development.

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