https://github.com/jordan-cutler/path-to-senior-engineer-handbook

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
• LinkedIn
• 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

Staying up-to-date

• The Pragmatic Engineer
• TLDR
• Pointer.io
• Changelog News

Frameworks and smart thinking

• Wes Kao's Newsletter
• Alex Brogan frameworks

System design

• System Design Newsletter
• Quastor
• ByteByteGo Newsletter
• Byte-Sized Design
• The Polymathic Engineer

Reliability Engineering

• SRE Weekly
• Platform Engineering Weekly
• Alex Ewerlöf Notes/SRE

Leadership

• The Hybrid Hacker
• Leading Developers
• Engineering Leadership
• Addy Osmani (RSS Link)
• Irrational Exuberance

Web-dev specific

• TLDR Web Dev
• Frontend Focus
• Frontend Engineering
• Smashing Magazine
• Kent C Dodds
• Josh Comeau (RSS Link)
• Friday Front-end
• CSS Weekly

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

Storytelling

• Storyworthy

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
• The Complete Software Developer's Career Guide
• Coders at Work: Reflections on the Craft of Programming

System Design

• Front End System Design Guidebook
• Awesome Front End 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

• Influence: The psychology of persuasion
• Yes - 50 scientifically proven ways to be persuasive

Productivity

• The productivity project
• Make time

User experience

• Don’t make me think
• Refactoring UI

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
• Josh Comeau CSS course
• Josh Comeau React course
• Kent C Dodds Epic React
• Kent C Dodds Epic Web

Recommended Websites

• Frontendmasters subscription
• Udemy courses
• Educative subscription
• Pluralsight courses
• Udacity courses
• Coursera courses
• Linkedin Learning
• Future Learn
• edX
• Microsoft Learn
• GreatFrontEnd

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

• Theo - t3.gg
• Fireship
• ThePrimeTime / Primeagen

Senior+ Soft skills

• LeadDev
• Lenny’s Podcast
• Charisma on Command

Frontend/CSS tips and tricks

• Kevin Powell
• Web Dev Simplified
• Matt Pocock (Typescript)
• Sam Selikoff

Productivity, side income, and personal growth

• Ali Abdaal
• Jeff Su
• Thomas Frank
• Matt D’Avella
• Clark Kegley

Podcasts

• Soft skills Podcast
• Staff Eng Podcast
• Frontend First Podcast
• The Changelog Podcast

Communities

• Taro
• Small Bets Community
• Theo - T3
• Frontend Mentor
• Kent C. Dodds Discord Community
• Changelog Community

LinkedIn

• 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

Other Catalogs

• Software Engineer's Library