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Folks who have shared their stories of reaching Staff-plus engineer roles:

Keavy McMinn - Senior Principal Engineer at Fastly

Dan Na - Staff Engineer and Team Lead at Squarespace

Joy Ebertz - Senior Staff Software Engineer at Split

Ritu Vincent - Staff Engineer at Dropbox

Nelson Elhage - Formerly Staff Engineer at Stripe

Duretti Hirpa - Formerly Staff Engineer at Mailchimp

Diana Pojar - Staff Data Engineer at Slack

Rick Boone - Strategic Advisor to Uber's VP of Infrastructure

Michelle Bu - Payments Products Tech Lead at Stripe

Silvia Botros - Senior Principal Engineer at Twilio Inc.

Bert Fan - Senior Staff Engineer at Slack

Dmitry Petrashko - Tech Advisor to the Head of Infra at Stripe

Ras Kasa Williams - Staff Engineer at Mailchimp

Katie Sylor-Miller - Frontend Architect at Etsy

Damian Schenkelman - Principal Engineer at Auth0

Stephen Wan - Staff Engineer at Samsara

Greg Wittel - Principal Software Engineer at Proofpoint

John Zittlau - Principal Engineer at Jobber

Alex Kessinger - Principal Engineer at Stitch Fix

Aaron Suggs - Principal Engineer at Glossier

Stephen Kawaguchi - Solution Architect at IBM

Mikhail Chernykh - Technical Lead at Indeed

Rebecca Panja - Staff Engineer at Medium

Ryan Bergman - Senior Staff Engineer at John Deere

Adam Bender - Principal Software Engineer at Google

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