Speaker: Erin Schnabel
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Distinguished Engineer @RedHat
Erin Schnabel (@ebullientworks) is a Distinguished Engineer and maker of things at Red Hat. She is a Java Champion, with over 25 years under her belt as a developer, technical leader, architect and advocate, and she strongly prefers being up to her elbows in code. Erin learns (and teaches) by coding ridiculous things, like "Monster Combat" (https://github.com/ebullient/monster-combat), an application that makes monsters fight each other to explore application metrics; "Pockets", a command-line application that works with relational data (https://github.com/ebullient/pockets-cli); and “Game On! Text Adventure” (https://gameontext.org) for exploring cloud native development.
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You Can Go Your Own Way: Navigating Your Own Career Path
Career paths seem obvious at the beginning: start your job, climb the ladder, retire. When we apply this pattern to a technical career, however, that general pattern raises some questions: Do I have to become an architect or a manager to make it to the next level? Do I have to stop coding?
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Panel: Staff+ Engineering in Practice
What are the skills you need to develop if you want to stay on the technical track to technical lead, staff, or principal? What will it take to thrive in this type of role?