StaffPlus London 2023
who it's for
staff engineers, tech leads, engineering managers, principal engineers, engineering directors, people managers
topics
staff engineer career pathways; technical leadership practices; mentoring and coaching engineers; cross-team collaboration patterns; scaling engineering organisations; engineering hiring and interviewing; diversity and inclusion in tech; engineering wellbeing and burnout; developer experience improvements; system design and architecture
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| Shweta Bhandare at StaffPlus London 2023 | Shweta Bhandare | 11m |
Recursion runs CRISPR-Cas9 mediated knockout across the whole human genome in disease cell models, robots image cells, and deep learning embeddings convert… | ||
| Sally Wahba StaffPlus London 2023 | Sally Wahba | 23m |
Claims that old design decisions persist: the write-anywhere file layout still delivers near-free snapshots decades later, and incompatible early choices force… | ||
| Laura Nolan at StaffPlus London 2023 | Laura Nolan | 23m |
Explains concrete methods — Energy Barrier perspective, causal loop diagrams, and hierarchical task analysis — applied to distributed systems with real… | ||
| Liem Pham at StaffPlus London 2023 | Liem Pham | 26m |
Starts as the first frontend engineer at Accurx working with the NHS and claims a 20+ members in two years front-end guild. Concrete practices include a blind… | ||
| Maria Neumayer at StaffPlus London 2023 | Maria Neumayer | 11m |
Autonomous teams keep ownership but drift; a concrete approach creates alignment: form a representative group from each squad, map problems by pain versus… | ||
| Maude Lemaire at StaffPlus London 2023 | Maude Lemaire | 12m |
A claim that context switching is really about periods of anticipated interruption leads to three concrete tactics: control the environment (pink or brown… | ||
| Michael Tweed at StaffPlus London 2023 | Michael Tweed | 12m |
Case study of deploying a static analysis system across distributed teams: the team disables all checks then enables one (code coverage) to avoid trust shocks… | ||
| Mike McQuaid at StaffPlus london 2023 | Mike McQuaid | 27m |
Homebrew migrates its binary bottles off Bintray to GitHub Packages before the hard shutdown, using oras then skopeo to push OCI-style blobs and extracting… | ||
| Nayana Shetty at StaffPlus London 2023 | Nayana Shetty | 28m |
Filling the jar metaphor frames prioritization into rocks pebbles and sand while delivering concrete claims and artifacts: GraphQL decision documented with… | ||
| Olena Sovyn at StaffPlus London 2023 | Olena Sovyn | 11m |
Group forms a seven‑person advisory called TADA that claims to improve architectural decisions by using a unified tech spec template plus a public Slack… | ||
| Sabrina Leandro at StaffPlus London 2023 | Sabrina Leandro | 24m |
A clear method appears: build a personal backlog of high-impact work from business strategy, team plans and org risks, then prioritize by company needs, risk… | ||
| Samantha Schaevitz at StaffPlus London 2023 | Samantha Schaevitz | 25m |
Standardization promises lower maintenance and faster onboarding but creates long risky migrations that sap ownership and stifle innovation unless managed… | ||
| Suhail Patel at StaffPlus London 2023 | Suhail Patel | 33m |
Argument: run migrations continuously, not as one-off projects. Concrete numbers and tools: monzo runs 2500 microservices and deploys 100+ times/day, moves… | ||
| Waheed El Miladi at StaffPlus London 2023 | Waheed El Miladi | 11m |
Promotion to staff in 2021 produces isolation and loss of informal calibration as remote work removes lunchtime feedback loops, causing irritability and… | ||
| Lais Oliveira at StaffPlus London 2023 | Laís de Oliveira | 22m |
Nubank is moving from one-country ops to a global footprint by building a multi-account AWS organization with separate country accounts plus a worldwide… | ||
| Alice Bartlett at StaffPlus London 2023 | Alice Bartlett | 27m |
A production bug where straight versus curly apostrophes breaks author hyperlinks on app but not web leads to a small project that proves a systemic fix… | ||
| Blanca Garcia Gil at StaffPlus London 2023 | Blanca Garcia Gil | 25m |
Solving the puzzle of staff+ time management means doing concrete things: write a responsibilities list and prune it with stakeholders so priorities are… | ||
| Blanca Rojo Martin at StaffPlus London 2023 | Blanca Rojo Martin | 10m |
UBS defines a three‑level IC path with a gamified learning layer where ~10,000 staff try 150 badges, roughly ~1,000 reach certified status and ~50 become… | ||
| Caroline Handley at StaffPlus London 2023 | Caroline Handley | 23m |
Claim: moving from line management back to an individual contributor role is practical but deliberate — expect months of reskilling, deliberate system design… | ||
| Dianing Yudono at StaffPlus London 2023 | Dianing Yudono | 11m |
A concrete method for making lessons actually useful: recreate lost knowledge like the Steinway case (over 12,000 parts and a tapered soundboard rediscovered)… | ||
| Eamon Scullion at StaffPlus London 2023 | Eamon Scullion | 09m |
Argues that a concise technical vision becomes a North Star: tie every ticket to business outcomes and use a shared single backlog so engineering and product… | ||
| Hannes Ricklefs at StaffPlusLondon 2023 | Hannes Ricklefs | 25m |
Architecture team leads technical strategy for a third of the digital BBC estate and lays out concrete moves: retire two large Lego systems running for 25… | ||
| J Bobby Dorlus at StaffPlus London 2023 | J. Bobby Dorlus | 20m |
Describes a concrete practice called red and blue war games that validates on‑call readiness, intentionally shuts down clusters in rehearsal (one past run took… | ||
| James Ford at StaffPlus London 2023 | James Ford | 26m |
Argues that writing reusable artifacts plus cross‑team working groups changes decisions across ~100 engineers, not meetings alone; builds a searchable docs… | ||
| Kaitlyn Tierney at StaffPlus London 2023 | Kaitlyn Tierney | 25m |
Argues that applying librarian practices produces a usable engineering Wiki: backup existing docs, prune ephemera, create a taxonomy, seed Evergreen pages, add… | ||
| Aish Dahal at StaffPlus London 2023 | Aish Raj Dahal | 23m |
Claim: cross-team staff-level alignment turns a product-level design into a company-wide platform. Case study shows a product lead reads Google Zanzibar… | ||
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