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All the resources you need to get to Senior Engineer and beyond
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All the resources you need to get to Senior Engineer and beyond
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README

        # Path to Senior Engineer Handbook

This repo has all the resources you need to reach Senior Software Engineer!

## Table of contents

- [Newsletters](#newsletters)

- [Books](#books)

- [Courses](#courses)

- [Papers](#papers)

- [YouTube](#youtube)

- [Podcasts](#podcasts)

- [Communities](#communities)

- [LinkedIn](#linkedin)

- [Platforms](#platforms)

- [Other catalogs](#other-catalogs)

## Newsletters

### General software engineer growth

- [High Growth Engineer](https://read.highgrowthengineer.com/)

- [The Developing Dev](https://open.substack.com/pub/ryanlpeterman)

- [Level up software engineering](https://open.substack.com/pub/levelupsoftwareengineering)

- [Engineer’s Codex](https://open.substack.com/pub/engineercodex)

- [Coding Challenges](https://open.substack.com/pub/codingchallenges)

- [EcZachly Data Engineering Newsletter](https://open.substack.com/pub/eczachly)

- [Techlead Mentor](https://open.substack.com/pub/ravirajachar)

- [The Caring Techie](https://open.substack.com/pub/thecaringtechie)

- [Refactoring](https://open.substack.com/pub/refactoring)

- [Strategize Your Career](https://open.substack.com/pub/strategizeyourcareer)

- [Saiyan Growth Letter](https://open.substack.com/pub/tigerabrodi)

- [Software Design: Tidy First?](https://open.substack.com/pub/tidyfirst)

- [Dev Interrupted](https://open.substack.com/users/89759436-dev-interrupted)

- [Exaltitude Career Growth](https://www.exaltitude.io/newsletter)

- [A Life Engineered](https://newsletter.alifeengineered.com/)

### Staying up-to-date

- [The Pragmatic Engineer](https://open.substack.com/pub/pragmaticengineer)

- [TLDR](https://tldr.tech/)

- [Pointer.io](https://www.pointer.io/)

- [Changelog News](https://changelog.com/news)

- [Hungry Minds](https://hungryminds.dev/)

### Frameworks and smart thinking

- [Wes Kao's Newsletter](https://open.substack.com/pub/weskao)

- [Alex Brogan frameworks](https://www.alexbrogan.com/)

### System design

- [System Design Newsletter](https://open.substack.com/pub/systemdesignone)

- [Quastor](https://blog.quastor.org/)

- [ByteByteGo Newsletter](https://open.substack.com/pub/bytebytego)

- [Byte-Sized Design](https://open.substack.com/users/134878169-byte-sized-design?utm_source=mentions)

- [The Polymathic Engineer](https://open.substack.com/pub/francofernando)

### Reliability engineering

- [SRE Weekly](https://sreweekly.com/)

- [Platform Engineering Weekly](https://www.platformengineeringweekly.com/)

- [Alex Ewerlöf Notes/SRE](https://blog.alexewerlof.com/s/sre)

### Leadership

- [The Hybrid Hacker](https://open.substack.com/pub/hybridhacker)

- [Leading Developers](https://open.substack.com/pub/zaidesanton)

- [Engineering Leadership](https://open.substack.com/pub/gregorojstersek)

- [Addy Osmani](https://addyosmani.com/blog/) ([RSS Link](https://addyosmani.com/feed.xml))

- [Irrational Exuberance](https://lethain.com/newsletter/)

- [Leadership Letters](https://www.leadership-letters.com)

### Web-dev specific

- [TLDR Web Dev](https://tldr.tech/webdev)

- [Frontend Focus](https://frontendfocus.substack.com/)

- [Frontend Engineering](https://frontendengineering.substack.com/)

- [Smashing Magazine](https://www.smashingmagazine.com/the-smashing-newsletter/)

- [Kent C Dodds](https://kentcdodds.com/blog)

- [Josh Comeau](https://www.joshwcomeau.com/tutorials/) ([RSS Link](https://www.joshwcomeau.com/rss.xml))

- [Friday Front-end](https://fridayfrontend.curated.co/)

- [CSS Weekly](https://css-weekly.com/)

- [Bytes.dev](https://bytes.dev/)

## Books

### Communication, writing, relationships

- [Crucial conversations](https://www.amazon.com/Crucial-Conversations-Tools-Talking-Stakes-ebook/dp/B093Y3N433)

- [Smart Brevity](https://www.amazon.com/Smart-Brevity-Power-Saying-More-ebook/dp/B09TGMK8G6)

- [The Fine Art of Small Talk](https://www.amazon.com/Fine-Art-Small-Talk-Conversation-ebook/dp/B0BY2K9KL2)

- [92 ways to talk to anyone](https://www.amazon.com/How-Talk-Anyone-Success-Relationships-ebook/dp/B000SEI4V0)

- [Connect: Building exceptional relationships with family, friends, and colleagues](https://www.amazon.com/Connect-Building-Exceptional-Relationships-Colleagues-ebook/dp/B0894279WZ)

- [What got you here won’t get you there](https://www.amazon.com/What-Here-There-Marshall-Goldsmith/dp/B09Z2YY2BX)

- [Communication for Engineers](https://www.amazon.com/Communication-Engineers-developers-communicators-productivity-ebook/dp/B08W8MJNF8)

- [Thanks for the Feedback](https://www.amazon.com/Thanks-Feedback-Science-Receiving-Well-ebook/dp/B00DMCV0XE)

- [Just Listen: Discover the secret to getting through to absolutely anyone](https://www.amazon.com/Just-Listen-Discover-Getting-Absolutely-ebook/dp/B00TRF2LJW)

- [Simply Said: Communicating better at work and beyond](https://www.amazon.com/Simply-Said-Communicating-Better-Beyond-ebook/dp/B01M7SGOHF)

- [Crucial influence](https://www.amazon.com/Crucial-Influence-Third-Leadership-Behavior-ebook/dp/B0BNW8Y18Z)

- [Radical candor](https://www.amazon.com/Radical-Candor-Revised-Kick-Ass-Humanity-ebook/dp/B07P9LPXPT)

- [Engineering management for the rest of us](https://www.amazon.com/Engineering-Management-Rest-Sarah-Drasner-ebook/dp/B0BGYVDX35)

- [Crucial accountability](https://www.amazon.com/Crucial-Accountability-Resolving-Expectations-Commitments-ebook/dp/B00C4BDRW6)

- [It was the best of sentences, it was the worst of sentences](https://www.amazon.com/Was-Best-Sentences-Worst-Crafting-ebook/dp/B0036S4AX6)

- [On writing well](https://www.amazon.com/Writing-Well-Classic-Guide-Nonfiction/dp/0060891548)

- [The Insider's Guide to Technical Writing](https://www.amazon.com/Insiders-Guide-Technical-Writing-ebook/dp/B09X2CHHB1)

### Storytelling

- [Storyworthy](https://www.amazon.com/Storyworthy-Engage-Persuade-through-Storytelling-ebook/dp/B07CV2PFYJ)

### Career growth and promotions

- [Omar Halabieh 90-day career blueprint](https://www.omarhalabieh.com/90-day-career-blueprint/)

- [Get Promoted](https://www.amazon.com/Get-Promoted-Really-Missing-Holding-ebook/dp/B09WGJVR4Z)

- [StaffEng.com – Stories of reaching Staff-plus engineering roles](https://staffeng.com/)

### Engineering

- [A philosophy of software design](https://www.amazon.com/Philosophy-Software-Design-2nd-ebook/dp/B09B8LFKQL)

- [Web scalability for startup engineers](https://www.amazon.com/Scalability-Startup-Engineers-Artur-Ejsmont/dp/0071843655)

- [Collection - Grady Booch, Software architecture/design books](https://handbookofsoftwarearchitecture.com/books/)

### Software engineer overall

- [Software Engineer's Guidebook](https://www.amazon.com/Software-Engineers-Guidebook-Navigating-positions/dp/908338182X)

- [Engineers Survival Guide](https://www.amazon.com/Engineers-Survival-Guide-Facebook-Microsoft/dp/B09MBZBGFK)

- [The Coding Career Handbook](https://learninpublic.org/)

- [Coders at Work: Reflections on the Craft of Programming](https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1430219483)

### System design

- [Front End System Design Guidebook](https://www.greatfrontend.com/system-design)

- [Awesome Front End System Design](https://github.com/greatfrontend/awesome-front-end-system-design)

- [The System Design Primer](https://github.com/donnemartin/system-design-primer)

### Leadership

- [The Manager’s Path](https://www.amazon.com/Managers-Path-Leaders-Navigating-Growth-ebook/dp/B06XP3GJ7F)

- [Staff Engineer: Leadership beyond the management track](https://www.amazon.com/Staff-Engineer-Leadership-beyond-management-ebook/dp/B08RMSHYGG)

- [The Staff Engineer’s Path](https://www.amazon.com/Staff-Engineers-Path-Individual-Contributors/dp/1098118731)

- [The Coaching Habit](https://www.amazon.com/Coaching-Habit-Less-Change-Forever-ebook/dp/B01BUIBBZI)

- [The Advice Trap](https://www.amazon.com/Advice-Trap-Humble-Curious-Forever-ebook/dp/B083YZTW4B)

- [The making of a manager](https://www.amazon.com/Making-Manager-What-Everyone-Looks-ebook/dp/B079WNPRL2)

- [Become an Effective Software Engineering Manager: How to Be the Leader Your Development Team Need](https://www.amazon.com/Become-Effective-Software-Engineering-Manager/dp/1680507249)

### Persuasion and influence

- [Influence: The psychology of persuasion](https://www.amazon.com/Influence-New-Expanded-Psychology-Persuasion-ebook/dp/B08HZ57WYN)

- [Yes - 50 scientifically proven ways to be persuasive](https://www.amazon.com/Yes-Scientifically-Proven-Ways-Persuasive-ebook/dp/B001F51X64)

### Productivity

- [The productivity project](https://www.amazon.com/Productivity-Project-Accomplishing-Managing-Attention-ebook/dp/B00Z3G239W)

- [Make time](https://www.amazon.com/Make-Time-Focus-Matters-Every-ebook/dp/B078QSCM3V)

### User experience

- [Don’t make me think](https://www.amazon.com/Dont-Make-Think-Revisited-Usability/dp/0321965515)

- [Refactoring UI](https://www.refactoringui.com/)

### Thinking smarter

- [Clear thinking](https://www.amazon.com/Clear-Thinking-Turning-Ordinary-Extraordinary-ebook/dp/B0BRMPJ8DR)

- [Thinking fast and slow](https://www.amazon.com/Thinking-Fast-Slow-Daniel-Kahneman-ebook/dp/B00555X8OA)

- [Super thinking: The big book of mental models](https://www.amazon.com/Super-Thinking-Book-Mental-Models-ebook/dp/B07P8J83WR)

- [The art of thinking clearly](https://www.amazon.com/Art-Thinking-Clearly-Rolf-Dobelli-ebook/dp/B00IZP6EVQ)

- [Thinking in systems](https://www.amazon.com/Thinking-Systems-Donella-H-Meadows-ebook/dp/B005VSRFEA)

## Courses

### Top courses

- [Mid-level to Senior Course by Jordan Cutler](https://maven.com/jordan-cutler/mid-level-to-senior?promoCode=PATHTOSENIORHANDBOOK)

- [Career growth courses on JoinTaro](https://www.jointaro.com/courses/)

- [Speedrun to Promotion by Steve Huynh](https://speedruntopromotion.com/)

- [Become a go-to expert on your team by Jordan Cutler](https://www.jointaro.com/course/become-the-go-to-expert-as-a-software-engineer/)

- [Frontend System Design by Maxi Ferreira - Free](https://frontendatscale.com/courses/frontend-architecture)

- [Josh Comeau CSS course](https://css-for-js.dev/)

- [Josh Comeau React course](https://www.joyofreact.com/)

- [Kent C Dodds Epic React](https://epicreact.dev/)

- [Kent C Dodds Epic Web](https://www.epicweb.dev/)

- [Bob Ziroll Learn React for Free](https://scrimba.com/learn/learnreact)

- [Google Technical Writing](https://developers.google.com/tech-writing/overview)

### Recommended websites

- [Frontendmasters subscription](https://frontendmasters.com/)

- [Udemy courses](https://www.udemy.com/)

- [Educative subscription](https://www.educative.io/)

- [Pluralsight courses](https://www.pluralsight.com/)

- [Udacity courses](https://www.udacity.com/)

- [Coursera courses](https://www.coursera.org/)

- [LinkedIn Learning](https://www.linkedin.com/learning/)

- [Future Learn](https://www.futurelearn.com/subjects/it-and-computer-science-courses)

- [edX](https://www.edx.org/)

- [Microsoft Learn](https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/)

- [GreatFrontEnd](https://www.greatfrontend.com/)

- [Scrimba interactive courses](https://scrimba.com)

- [KodeKloud](https://www.kodekloud.com)

- [Hyperskill](https://hyperskill.org/tracks)

## Papers

- [Dynamo: Amazon's Highly Available Key-value Store](https://www.allthingsdistributed.com/files/amazon-dynamo-sosp2007.pdf)

- [MapReduce: Simplified Data Processing on Large Clusters](https://static.googleusercontent.com/media/research.google.com/en//archive/mapreduce-osdi04.pdf)

- [The Google File System](https://static.googleusercontent.com/media/research.google.com/en//archive/gfs-sosp2003.pdf)

- [Bigtable: A Distributed Storage System for Structured Data](https://static.googleusercontent.com/media/research.google.com/en//archive/bigtable-osdi06.pdf)

- [Spanner: Google's Globally Distributed Database](https://www.usenix.org/system/files/conference/osdi12/osdi12-final-16.pdf)

- [Cassandra - A Decentralized Structured Storage System](https://www.cs.cornell.edu/projects/ladis2009/papers/lakshman-ladis2009.pdf)

## YouTube

### Broad news and opinions in tech

- [Theo - t3.gg](https://www.youtube.com/@t3dotgg)

- [Fireship](https://www.youtube.com/@Fireship)

- [ThePrimeTime / Primeagen](https://www.youtube.com/@ThePrimeTimeagen)

### Senior+ soft skills

- [A Life Engineered - Steve Huynh](https://www.youtube.com/@ALifeEngineered)

- [Exaltitude Career Growth](https://www.youtube.com/@exaltitude)

- [LeadDev](https://www.youtube.com/@LeadDev/videos)

- [Lenny’s Podcast](https://www.youtube.com/@LennysPodcast)

- [Charisma on Command](https://www.youtube.com/@Charismaoncommand)

### Frontend/CSS tips and tricks

- [Kevin Powell](https://www.youtube.com/@KevinPowell)

- [Web Dev Simplified](https://www.youtube.com/@WebDevSimplified)

- [Matt Pocock (Typescript)](https://www.youtube.com/@mattpocockuk)

- [Sam Selikoff](https://www.youtube.com/@samselikoff)

### Productivity, side income, and personal growth

- [Ali Abdaal](https://www.youtube.com/@aliabdaal)

- [Jeff Su](https://www.youtube.com/@JeffSu)

- [Thomas Frank](https://www.youtube.com/@Thomasfrank)

- [Matt D’Avella](https://www.youtube.com/@mattdavella)

- [Clark Kegley](https://www.youtube.com/@clarkkegley)

## Podcasts

- [Soft skills Podcast](https://softskills.audio/)

- [Staff Eng Podcast](https://podcast.staffeng.com/)

- [Frontend First Podcast](https://www.youtube.com/@frontendfirst)

- [The Changelog Podcast](https://changelog.fm)

- [The Scrimba Podcast](https://scrimba.com/podcast/)

- [Developing Leadership](https://www.developingleadership.co/)

- [John Maxwell Leadership Podcast](https://johnmaxwellleadershippodcast.com/)

## Communities

- [Taro](https://www.jointaro.com/)

- [Exaltitude Engineering Leadership Community](https://www.exaltitude.io/)

- [Small Bets Community](https://dvassallo.gumroad.com/l/small-bets)

- [GreatFrontend](https://discord.gg/NDFx8f6P6B)

- [Theo - T3](https://discord.com/invite/xHdCpcPHRE)

- [Frontend Mentor](https://www.frontendmentor.io/)

- [Kent C. Dodds Discord Community](https://kentcdodds.com/discord)

- [Tiger Abrodi's Little Software Planet](https://littlesoftwareplanet.com/community)

- [Changelog Community](https://changelog.com/community)

- [Scrimba Discord Community](https://scrimba.com/community)

- [ladderly.io](https://ladderly.io/)

- [Rands Leadership Community (Slack)](https://randsinrepose.com/welcome-to-rands-leadership-slack/)

## LinkedIn

- [Jordan Cutler](https://www.linkedin.com/in/jordancutler1/)

- [Gregor Ojstersek](https://www.linkedin.com/in/gregorojstersek/)

- [Gergely Orosz](https://www.linkedin.com/in/gergelyorosz/)

- [Nicola Ballotta](https://www.linkedin.com/in/nicolaballotta/)

- [Alex Chiou](https://www.linkedin.com/in/alexander-chiou/)

- [Rahul Pandey](https://www.linkedin.com/in/rpandey1234/)

- [Caleb Mellas](https://www.linkedin.com/in/calebmellas/)

- [John Crickett](https://www.linkedin.com/in/johncrickett/)

- [Ryan Peterman](https://www.linkedin.com/in/ryanlpeterman/)

- [Alex Xu](https://www.linkedin.com/in/alexxubyte/)

- [Zach Wilson](https://www.linkedin.com/in/eczachly/)

- [Wes Kao](https://www.linkedin.com/in/weskao/)

- [Omar Halabieh](https://www.linkedin.com/in/omarhalabieh/)

- [Raviraj Achar](https://www.linkedin.com/in/ravirajachar/)

- [Irina Stanescu](https://www.linkedin.com/in/irinastanescu/)

- [Richard Donovan](https://www.linkedin.com/in/rich-donovan/)

- [Luca Rossi](https://www.linkedin.com/in/lucaronin/)

- [Anton Zaides](https://www.linkedin.com/in/anton-zaides/)

- [Neo Kim](https://www.linkedin.com/in/nk-systemdesign-one/)

- [Dallon Asnes](https://www.linkedin.com/in/dallonasnes/)

- [Tiger Abrodi](https://www.linkedin.com/in/tiger-abrodi/)

- [Daniel Moka](https://www.linkedin.com/in/danielmoka/)

- [Mads Brodt](https://www.linkedin.com/in/madsbrodt/)

- [James Willett](https://www.linkedin.com/in/willettjames/)

- [Anemari Fiser](https://www.linkedin.com/in/anemari-fiser/)

- [Mike Thornton](https://www.linkedin.com/in/devdetails/)

- [Dariusz Sadowski](https://www.linkedin.com/in/darsadowski/)

- [Adrian Stanek](https://www.linkedin.com/in/adrianstanek/)

- [Steven Syrek](https://www.linkedin.com/in/steven-syrek/)

- [Doug Howard](https://www.linkedin.com/in/doughowardcoaching/)

- [Casey Dai](https://www.linkedin.com/in/caseydai/)

- [Petar Ivanov](https://www.linkedin.com/in/petarivanovv9/)

- [Alex Kliotzkin](https://www.linkedin.com/in/alex-kliotzkin/)

- [Nordine Hadi](https://www.linkedin.com/in/nordinehadi/)

- [Yangshun Tay](https://www.linkedin.com/in/yangshun/)

- [David Anderson](https://www.linkedin.com/in/scarletink/)

- [Alexandre Zajac](https://www.linkedin.com/in/alexandre-zajac/)

- [Jean Lee](https://www.linkedin.com/in/jeanklee/)

- [Akash Mukherjee](https://www.linkedin.com/in/akashmuk/)

## Platforms

### General leveling up

- [Codecrafters: Practice writing complex software (affiliate - 40% off)](https://app.codecrafters.io/join?via=jordan-cutler) [non-affiliate link version](https://app.codecrafters.io)

### Interview prep

#### Coding interview

- [LeetCode](https://www.leetcode.com)

- [NeetCode](https://www.neetcode.io)

- [PyPup](https://www.pypup.com)

- [Codemia](https://codemia.io)

#### Mock interviews

- [Pramp](https://www.pramp.com)

- [Hello Interview](https://www.hellointerview.com)

- [Interviewing IO](https://www.interviewing.io)

- [IGotAnOffer](https://www.igotanoffer.com)

- [MeetAPro](https://www.meetapro.com)

## Other catalogs

- [Software Engineer's Library](https://kevinsmith.io/library/)

- [16x Engineer](https://16x.engineer/)