JavaCro is Croatia’s international Java conference, held on the Adriatic coast. I spoke at the 2024 edition on the path to staff-level engineering: the depth in programming and architecture the role assumes, how to grow into leadership without giving up craft, mentorship, and the continuous learning that keeps the job sustainable.
The same subject ran at DevBCN in June and at the WeAreDevelopers World Congress in July of that year. Straight Out of the Bootcamp covers the entry end of the same arc.