The Writings of Chad McElligott

Often when coming home from a conference, I have a notebook (in Goodnotes) full of notes taken from all the talks I attended.

I'm now at my second company using Temporal.

I've been attending DevOps Days in Birmingham, Alabama since its inception and have enjoyed being a part of this small tech community over the years.

This year was my third year to attend DevOpsDays Birmingham, AL.

After giving my talk at DevOpsDays Birmingham in 2023, I was invited to appear on two podcasts to discuss Platform Engineering further!

One of the key traits of a senior engineer and especially a staff+ engineer is being self-directing.

In April 2023, I gave my first ever public conference talk at DevOps Days in Birmingham, Alabama.

Sometimes people joke that we become software engineers because we "like computers more than people" - the implication within this being that we'd rather avoid talking with people as much as possible.

Staff Engineer: Leadership beyond the management track by Will Larson is a needed deep dive into the world of software engineering leadership outside choosing the management career path.

As a software engineer, one of the first principles of your profession is that you never stop learning.

Twice a year, the consulting agency ThoughtWorks publishes a document they call the Technology Radar.

I've been writing Rest APIs in Node.js, Ruby, and PHP for nearly 8 years.

I have had many false-starts with blogging.

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