What does a long career as an individual contributor look like? The answer isn't always clear cut, especially if you're given the option of becoming a manager. Today, we'll talk to Matt Klein about how to stay an engineer in part two of our interview with Matt.

Matt is on the engineering team at Lyft and one of the main contributors to the open source project, Envoy.

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