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My thoughts about the Principal role
05 May 2021
What s a Principal Software Engineer?
One of the things I couldn t answer in the last 4-5 years was my role.
Am I a manager? No. In some cases, people may report to me from an organisational point of view but my way to manage is don t manage at all and let the team self organize with my help. I tend to focus more on the team and processes and less on people. I m not a manager, I try to be a technical leader. Organizations that understand the Trident Career Model have a great advantage because at scale, it is often hard to find people who have deep skills and experiences at both of these areas, and that it can be useful to discuss where someone’s focus, passion or development progression lies . I think I could be a manager, but it wouldn t be so fun and, definitively, I don t want to be both things at the same time.
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Somewhere far off in another country, a hacker infiltrated a US energy company, crippling a fuel supply line that runs 5,500 miles from New York to Texas and leaving me, like others, unsure if I’d make it home from work on the gasoline left in my tank.
It is an example of the vulnerability of sole reliance on big energy.
Electric grids are the big energy equivalent of the fuel line on the power side of the energy industry. They carry electricity instead of fuel, but are subject to the same kind of far-reaching calamities because of a single point of failure. So far, we haven’t experienced massive power outages because of a cyberattack, but we have again and again because of storms, wildfires or something as simple as a tree branch falling on a wire in the wrong place.