LeadDev Courses

The Joy of Being Wrong - Rethinking Assumptions for Better Leadership

Discover how challenging assumptions and embracing being wrong leads to better leadership, stronger teams, and smarter decision-making through real-world examples and scientific thinking.

• YouTube
• 25 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

Your Career Isn't Stuck - You're Playing by the Wrong Rules

Discover how to break free from traditional career rules and build visibility, influence, and recognition in tech without burnout or compromising your authentic self.

• YouTube
• 26 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

Why Your Greatest Strengths Are Your Next Blind Spots

Discover why engineering leadership strengths become blind spots when managing managers and learn to shift from doing to enabling others for next-level success.

• YouTube
• 25 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

Supply Chain - Data Infrastructure Pipeline

Discover how modern data pipelines transform supply chain operations through real-time insights, improved data quality, and ML-powered predictions for enterprise-grade scalability.

• YouTube
• 11 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

Migrations Done Right - Success Stories and Lessons Learned

Master safe, large-scale system migrations using incremental delivery, traffic splitting, and feature flags to avoid risky big-bang releases while maintaining user trust.

• YouTube
• 26 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

Debugging Self-Doubt - A Framework for Building Confidence

Discover a practical 5-step debugging framework to overcome imposter syndrome and build genuine confidence as an engineering leader through real-world examples and actionable tools.

• YouTube
• 11 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

High-Performance Tech Talent - Build, Don't Buy!

Discover how CodeYourFuture transforms underserved communities into exceptional engineers for advanced tech roles, creating sustainable hiring solutions with real social impact.

• YouTube
• 11 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

Nail the Pitch and Stick the Landing - Effective Strategies for Engineering Proposals

Master the art of pitching engineering projects to management. Learn strategies for convincing decision-makers to prioritize crucial infrastructure work over feature development.

• YouTube
• 30 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

The OSS Maintainer to Staff Engineer Pipeline - StaffPlus New York 2024

Explore how open source software maintenance practices translate to staff engineering skills, scaling influence, and effective collaboration.

• YouTube
• 21 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

With Great Power Comes Great Responsibility - Engineering Ethics in the Modern Era

Explore the critical shift in software engineering towards failure-safe systems and learn how leaders can drive this change in the profession.

• YouTube
• 28 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

The Big Picture of Debt - Understanding and Managing Technical Debt

Explore technical debt through a database case study, distinguishing good from regrettable choices and learning when to tackle complex issues.

• YouTube
• 27 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

Explosive Overflow: Lessons from Rocket Science - StaffPlus New York 2024

Explore rocket science lessons on resilience and product security, analyzing historical software flaws to improve design, testing, and validation practices.

• YouTube
• 27 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

Software Security as a Force of Nature

Explore effective principles and practices for sustaining systems resilience, drawing inspiration from nature, human adaptations, and engineering practices.

• YouTube
• 32 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

Psychologically Safe Reliability Management

Explore organizational challenges in observability platform adoption, focusing on psychological safety and effective reliability management strategies.

• YouTube
• 29 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

Navigators: Driving Alignment in Growing Engineering Organizations

Discover strategies for organizational alignment through Carta's initiatives: defining shared execution strategy and designating senior engineers as "Navigators" to drive and interpret strategy across teams.

• YouTube
• 24 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video