Path to Staff Engineer

Path to Staff Engineer

How Public Speaking Accelerates Your Engineering Career

The skill that puts your technical expertise in the spotlight

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Dec 14, 2024
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Today, we have a special guest post by Fran Soto, Software Engineer at Amazon. He writes at Strategize Your Career, where he shares actionable career tips weekly. Be sure to check out his newsletter.

Fran recently shared that he had been learning and mastering the art of presenting – a skill that many engineers shy away from. I’ve invited him here today to share more about his challenges, journey and lessons learned while public speaking to an audience of over 1000 engineers.

I’ll let Fran take over from here.

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Software Engineer at Amazon. I help software engineers get promoted without working longer hours. My newsletter shows you how to free up 30–60 minutes a day to do the activities that create promo artifacts.
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