The Principal Engineer - Masterclass Training Course
The Principal Engineer Masterclass is designed for seasoned and driven engineers who already possess the ability to deliver production-ready code. This course aims to transform you into an exceptional software engineer and leader, enabling you to make a significant positive impact on your team and organization. Throughout this course, you will explore system design and architecture, code review techniques, mentoring and coaching strategies, pair programming, cultivating a strong engineering culture, and other critically important engineering practices.
This instructor-led, live training (available onsite or remotely) is tailored for:
- Mid-level software engineers
- Senior software engineers
- Principal software engineers
- Staff software engineers
- Lead software engineers
- Software architects
- Engineering managers
Upon completion of this training, participants will be able to:
- Promote to the next career level if they are currently mid-level or senior engineers
- If they already lead a team or are above the senior level, utilize the tools, techniques, and frameworks learned in this course to:
- Effectively lead high-performing engineering teams
- Achieve effective 360-degree collaboration with all stakeholders
- Master core technical skills essential for a principal engineer
- Cultivate a robust engineering culture within the organization
- Develop a mastery mindset for continuous learning
Course Format
- Interactive lectures and discussions
- Extensive exercises and practical applications
- Tools, techniques, and frameworks to help you become a 'unicorn' engineer
- Sharing of real-world experiences
Course Customization Options
- To request customized training for this course, please contact us to arrange details.
Course Outline
- Lead
- High-performing teams
- Initiatives and OKRs
- Building engineering culture
- Building scalable systems
- Recruiting the right engineers
- Collaborate
- Mentoring and coaching engineers through pairing
- Being a force multiplier
- Cross-functional stakeholder collaboration
- Technical documentation and presentation
- Collaboration with management
- Expertize
- System design and architecture
- Effective code reviews
- Monitoring systems and services
- Horizontal skills
- Development and release processes
- Learn
- Researching, prototyping, and proof of concepts (POCs)
- Customer-centric software development
- Prioritization and delegation
- Learning from failures and successes
- Time management
Requirements
We recommend having at least three years of commercial software development experience to fully benefit from this course.
This course will pave the way for you to become a Tech Lead, Principal Engineer, Staff Engineer, or Software Architect.
Open Training Courses require 5+ participants.
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Testimonials (3)
hands on exercises, easier to retain information
ashley bolen - Insurance Corporation of British Columbia
Course - Test Automation with Selenium
Key topics can be discussed and agreed upon with the trainer in advance. Relaxed and pleasant atmosphere during the seminar days.
Lorenz - Continentale Lebensversicherung AG
Course - Advanced Selenium
I gained new knowledge and I'm pretty confident about it. Nothing unclear.
Barbara - Titian Software Poland Sp. z o.o.
Course - Selenium WebDriver in C#
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