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 the program, you will explore system design and architecture, advanced code reviewing techniques, mentorship and coaching strategies, pair programming, fostering a robust 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
By the conclusion of this training, participants will be equipped to:
- Advance to the next level from mid-level or senior roles
- If already leading a team or holding a role above senior engineer, apply the tools, techniques, and frameworks learned to:
- Effectively lead high-performing engineering teams
- Foster effective 360-degree collaboration with all stakeholders
- Master the core technical skills expected of a principal engineer
- Cultivate a strong engineering culture within the organization
- Develop a mastery mindset for continuous learning
Course Format
- Interactive lectures and discussions
- Extensive exercises and practical application
- Access to tools, techniques, and frameworks to become a 'unicorn' engineer
- Sharing of real-world experiences
Course Customization Options
- To request customized training for this course, please contact us to arrange.
Course Outline
- Lead
- High-performing teams
- Initiatives and OKRs
- Building engineering culture
- Building scalable systems
- Onboarding 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 process
- Learn
- Researching, Prototyping and POCs
- Customer-centric software development
- Prioritization and Delegation
- Learn from failures and successes
- Time management
Requirements
Recommended prior experience includes at least 3 years of commercial software development 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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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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