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All the resources you need to get to Senior Engineer and beyond
Path to Senior Engineer handbook
This repo has all the resources you need to reach Senior Software Engineer!
Table of contents
- Newsletters
- Books
- Courses
- Papers
- YouTube
- Podcasts
- Communities
- Platforms
- Other Catalogs
Newsletters
General software engineer growth
- High Growth Engineer
- The Developing Dev
- Level up software engineering
- Engineer’s Codex
- Coding Challenges
- EcZachly Data Engineering Newsletter
- Techlead Mentor
- The Caring Techie
- Refactoring
- Strategize Your Career
- Saiyan Growth Letter
- Software Design: Tidy First?
- Dev Interrupted
- Exaltitude Career Growth
- A Life Engineered
Staying up-to-date
Frameworks and smart thinking
System design
Reliability Engineering
Leadership
- The Hybrid Hacker
- Leading Developers
- Engineering Leadership
- Addy Osmani (RSS Link)
- Irrational Exuberance
- Leadership Letters
Web-dev specific
- TLDR Web Dev
- Frontend Focus
- Frontend Engineering
- Smashing Magazine
- Kent C Dodds
- Josh Comeau (RSS Link)
- Friday Front-end
- CSS Weekly
- Bytes.dev
Books
Communication, writing, relationships
- Crucial conversations
- Smart Brevity
- The Fine Art of Small Talk
- 92 ways to talk to anyone
- Connect: Building exceptional relationships with family, friends, and colleagues
- What got you here won’t get you there
- Communication for Engineers
- Thanks for the Feedback
- Just Listen: Discover the secret to getting through to absolutely anyone
- Simply Said: Communicating better at work and beyond
- Crucial influence
- Radical candor
- Engineering management for the rest of us
- Crucial accountability
- It was the best of sentences, it was the worst of sentences
- On writing well
- The Insider's Guide to Technical Writing
Storytelling
Career growth and promotions
- Omar Halabieh 90-day career blueprint
- Get Promoted
- StaffEng.com – Stories of reaching Staff-plus engineering roles
Engineering
- A philosophy of software design
- Web scalability for startup engineers
- Collection - Grady Booch, Software architecture/design books
Software Engineer Overall
- Software Engineer's Guidebook
- Engineers Survival Guide
- The Coding Career Handbook
- Coders at Work: Reflections on the Craft of Programming
System Design
Leadership
- The Manager’s Path
- Staff Engineer: Leadership beyond the management track
- The Staff Engineer’s Path
- The Coaching Habit
- The Advice Trap
- The making of a manager
Persuasion & influence
Productivity
User experience
Thinking smarter
- Clear thinking
- Thinking fast and slow
- Super thinking: The big book of mental models
- The art of thinking clearly
- Thinking in systems
Courses
Top Courses
- Mid-level to Senior Course by Jordan Cutler
- Speedrun to Promotion by Steve Huynh
- Josh Comeau CSS course
- Josh Comeau React course
- Kent C Dodds Epic React
- Kent C Dodds Epic Web
- Bob Ziroll Learn React for Free
- Google Technical Writing
Recommended Websites
- Frontendmasters subscription
- Udemy courses
- Educative subscription
- Pluralsight courses
- Udacity courses
- Coursera courses
- Linkedin Learning
- Future Learn
- edX
- Microsoft Learn
- GreatFrontEnd
- Scrimba interactive courses
- KodeKloud
- Hyperskill
Papers
- Dynamo: Amazon's Highly Available Key-value Store
- MapReduce: Simplified Data Processing on Large Clusters
- The Google File System
- Bigtable: A Distributed Storage System for Structured Data
- Spanner: Google's Globally Distributed Database
- Cassandra - A Decentralized Structured Storage System
YouTube
Broad news and opinions in tech
Senior+ Soft skills
- A Life Engineered - Steve Huynh
- Exaltitude Career Growth
- LeadDev
- Lenny’s Podcast
- Charisma on Command
Frontend/CSS tips and tricks
Productivity, side income, and personal growth
Podcasts
- Soft skills Podcast
- Staff Eng Podcast
- Frontend First Podcast
- The Changelog Podcast
- The Scrimba Podcast
- Developing Leadership
- John Maxwell Leadership Podcast
Communities
- Taro
- Exaltitude Engineering Leadership Community
- Small Bets Community
- Theo - T3
- Frontend Mentor
- Kent C. Dodds Discord Community
- Changelog Community
- Scrimba Discord Community
- ladderly.io
- Rands Leadership Community (Slack)
- Jordan Cutler
- Gregor Ojstersek
- Gergely Orosz
- Nicola Ballotta
- Alex Chiou
- Rahul Pandey
- Caleb Mellas
- John Crickett
- Ryan Peterman
- Alex Xu
- Zach Wilson
- Wes Kao
- Omar Halabieh
- Raviraj Achar
- Irina Stanescu
- Richard Donovan
- Luca Rossi
- Anton Zaides
- Neo Kim
- Dallon Asnes
- Tiger Abrodi
- Daniel Moka
- Mads Brodt
- James Willett
- Anemari Fiser
- Mike Thornton
- Dariusz Sadowski
- Adrian Stanek
- Steven Syrek
- Doug Howard
- Casey Dai
- Petar Ivanov
- Alex Kliotzkin
- Nordine Hadi
- Yangshun Tay
- David Anderson
- Alexandre Zajac
- Jean Lee
- Akash Mukherjee