Strengthening the Engineering Culture / The Distinguished Engineer Program
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Joins Thomson Reuters in March 2022 as the first Distinguished Engineer (DE) and launches a program in May 2022 that formalizes a hands‑on career path with technical career path roles: principal engineer and distinguished engineer, plus a five‑year company minimum and OKR‑based measurement. Selects first cohort in December 2022, grows to five DEs in 2023, runs ideathons (over 200 ideas) and a global hackathon for prototyping, and ties work to product impact, tooling adoption, governance and measurable business outcomes.
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chapters (7)
- 0:00Introduction
- 3:32Transition to Thomson Reuters and distinguished engineer role
- 9:14Defining the distinguished engineer at Thomson Reuters
- 13:27DE day-to-day
- 20:47Building DE program
- 25:47Engineering culture purpose
- 30:20Questions to assess and improve engineering culture
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