Speaker: Sophie Weston
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Principal Engineer @ClearBank, Co-Organizer of DevOpsDays London & FastFlowConf
Sophie has spent nearly thirty years working in technology as a software engineer and DevOps advocate. These days her main focus is on ways of working, helping to create happy, effective teams and build a good engineering culture.
This is what she does in her current role as Principal Engineer at ClearBank. Prior to that, she worked with Matthew Skelton (co-author of Team Topologies) helping organisations to adopt Team Topologies and fast flow ways of working.
An active member of the wider tech community, she is an ambassador for Women In Tech York, co-organiser of DevOpsDays London and FastFlowConf, and has even been known to give the occasional talk herself.
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Session
The Principal Engineer’s Path: Skills, Strategies, and Lessons Learned
In many organizations, the role of Principal Engineer is considered the highest level of the ‘individual contributor’ career path. But careers aren’t like ladders—short, straight, and evenly spaced. Instead, they’re long, winding, and often challenging journeys.
Date
Monday Apr 7 / 10:35AM BST ( 50 minutes )
Location
Whittle (3rd Fl.)
