Engineer Your Career

The Journey to Principal Engineer with Joy Ebertz

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Joy Ebertz is a Principal Software Engineer, prolific blogger, avid ultrarunner, and an advocate for increasing the number of women and minorities in Computer Science. At Split, Joy establishes technical direction for their backend team. Prior to Split, she worked at Box. At both Split and Box, Joy lead efforts around splitting monoliths into microservices, revamping authentication and authorization frameworks, creating REST API standards, audit logging and more. In addition to designing software and writing code, Joy shares her learnings through her blog (which has 2.7k followers on Medium), and is often invited to speak at conferences such as LeadDev and WWCode. In her free time, she does a lot of traveling, reading, and running ridiculously long distances (mostly on trails).


In this episode, we discuss:

  • How different size companies played a factor in Joy's career journey
  • The value of understanding your workstyle and motivations
  • Why she left people management
  • The power of written and spoken communication
  • What most people get wrong about influencing others
  • Networking tips for introverts


    • Additional Resources:

    • There and Back Again: Why I Entered & Left Management - Presentation by Joy Ebertz
    • Why It's So Hard to Become a Staff Engineer - Medium blog post by Joy Ebertz


      • Where to find Joy Ebertz:

      LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/joyebertz/

      Medium: https://jkebertz.medium.com/


      Where to find Heidi Williams:

      LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/heidiwilliams1/

      Website: https://www.joinwest.org/

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