StaffPlus New York 2022
2022-04-04..2022-04-05
New York, NY, United States
[StaffPlus New York 2022, StaffPlus New York 2024, StaffPlus New York 2025]
who it's for
staff engineers, principal engineers, distinguished engineers, engineering managers, tech leads, site reliability engineers
topics
staff+ peer group practices; onboarding for staff engineers; API design lifecycle; long term program planning; organizational decision buy-in; kernel isolation with cgroups and namespaces; progressive web app refactor and Lighthouse; prioritization rituals and time logs; accessibility best practices; product briefs and RACI
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| Leveraging Your Peers as a Staff Plus Engineer: Building Peer Groups | David Daly | 11m |
A staff‑plus peer group at MongoDB uses a private Slack channel, Google Group, twice‑monthly Zooms and occasional dinners and invites members across the… | ||
| Being a principal engineer. The world is your oyster. | Silvia Botros | 31m |
Role means steering technical and product strategy, not just coding: guide choices like databases versus managed services, Kubernetes versus VMs, or language… | ||
| Strategies for focusing on the most important thing | Ryan Harter | 10m |
Claim: half of work time is wasted and prioritization follows inertia, decibels, and guilt. Practical tools: a time log, a ritual every two weeks (half day) to… | ||
| Starting a new job as a Staff+ | Amy Unger | 29m |
Concrete, actionable checklist that decides whether to watch: clarify the exact hire rationale and the problem to own, build cross-org contacts and an… | ||
| Lifecycle of an API design | Michelle Bu | 11m |
Four concrete stages: write a quick start guide first to define the end state, model the domain (payments: saved cards vs QR codes), package simple APIs… | ||
| Moon to Mars: Planning and executing for the long term | Katie Sylor-Miller | 29m |
Builds a site-wide app shell refactor to enable progressive web app features, phases work so each phase ships value, and measures success with Lighthouse >90… | ||
| Getting to Commitment: Tackling broad technical problems in large organizations | Mattie Toia | 12m |
Five concrete moves increase odds of organizational commitment: first know your goal — clarify business and personal motives, the unique insight nobody else… | ||
| Solving inefficiency challenges at Datacenter scale | J. Bobby Dorlus | 27m |
An engineering team finds storage nodes using <20% CPU, then implements kernel isolation with cgroups and namespaces and socket pinning so storage and compute… | ||
| Becoming an influencer (no selfies required) | Leslie Chapman | 27m |
Migrating an embedded C/C++ stack to Java with CI/CD and cloud workflows, shipping the X1 platform that reaches 35 million+ subscribers, and winning two Emmys… | ||
| Driving clarity in ambiguous projects | Scott Triglia | 29m |
Recommends concrete artifacts: write a product brief / PRFAQ that names target users and exit criteria; run a small core team using RACI and give that nucleus… | ||
| The Art & Science of Decision Buy-In | John Riviello | 31m |
Practical claim: Comcast uses the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) to turn pairwise comparisons into a priority score that guided framework and architecture… | ||
| Building a better bridge | Bryan Liles | 30m |
Argues staff‑plus engineers are bridge builders who increase scope and accountability, lays out VMware ladder names and scope (MTS → staff → staff2 → senior… | ||
| Accessibility and why everything old is new again | Alice Li | 11m |
Slides argue that semantic HTML and landmarks materially speed screen‑reader navigation and give concrete examples — header nav main footer, individual p tags… | ||
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