February 22-24, 2023
Montreal, Canada
The Other Kind of Staff Software Engineer
Staff and line are names given to different types of functions in organizations in business literature. A staff engineer under this definition is not a title, but a developer who works in a supporting role. In this talk, I'll explain how the distinction between line and staff can help you understand promotions, skillset development, and help chart your career progression.
Adam Gordon Bell
Pulumi
Adam Gordon Bell is a Community Engineer at Pulumi and creator of the CoRecursive podcast, with several million downloads and interviews with the creators of SQLite, Chef, and PowerShell. He has over 20 years of experience as a software engineer and has written widely-read technical guides on AWK, jq, Bazel, and containers. Previously, he built cloud security products at Tenable and led developer relations at Earthly.
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