WeAreDevelopers World Congress is one of the largest developer conferences in the world: 15,000+ engineers across three days in Berlin. I spoke at the 2024 edition on the path to staff-level engineering — the depth in programming and architecture the role assumes, growing into leadership without giving up craft, mentorship, and the continuous learning that keeps the job sustainable.
The same subject ran at DevBCN a month earlier and at JavaCro in October. For the entry end of the same arc, see Straight Out of the Bootcamp; for the panel version, Career Journeys in Tech.