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Talkat SwiftLeeds 2023 · 2023-10-09..10-10· [career-development, ios]

speaker

name:Joel Kin
mastodon:@foon@mastodon.social

resources

video:https://youtu.be/rI5robwqIeE
slides:none on file

summary

Argues that Staff+ for mobile means proactive business impact, not just deeper coding, and that promotion hinges on a relationship with senior leadership (VP). Offers concrete work examples: spends 20% development time, builds a QA business case from regression and code‑coverage data, spends a year creating an open‑source policy to publish quirl, writes five‑year vision and technical investment plans, and leads a greenfield iPhone app as tech lead/architect to prove the role.

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chapters (7)

  1. 0:00Introduction and career goals
  2. 3:11Defining staff engineer roles
  3. 7:00Pathways to promotion
  4. 15:20Working with your VP
  5. 20:36Leaving for a staff role
  6. 25:48Weighing the downsides
  7. 29:34Recap and next steps

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