Chris Laffra
Chris is an experienced, passionate, and talented software engineer with a strong drive to help other engineers grow. u003cbru003eu003cbru003eHe has been a manager, tech lead, technical lead manager, advisor, mentor, researcher, and staff software engineer with companies such as IBM, Morgan Stanley, Bank of America, Google, Uber, Plato, Sourcegraph, and JP Morgan. This experience allows Chris to quickly understand other engineers’ situations and make meaningful suggestions to help them grow to the next level.
Mentoring, guidance, and coaching on hard and soft skills are skills that allow engineers to grow to the next level. Achieving maximum happiness and energy within a team requires deep insights into how the entire software development process is organized, the role the team plays in this, and how all this impacts individuals. u003cbru003eu003cbru003e
Through decades of personal experience, Chris has analyzed and summarized this entire field in numerous u003ca href=u0022https://medium.com/@laffrau0022 target=u0022_blanku0022 rel=u0022noreferrer noopeneru0022u003eblogsu003c/au003e, u003ca href=u0022https://www.slideshare.net/chrislaffra/presentationsu0022 target=u0022_blanku0022 rel=u0022noreferrer noopeneru0022u003epresentationsu003c/au003e, and u003ca href=u0022https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/1226747.Chris_Laffrau0022 target=u0022_blanku0022 rel=u0022noreferrer noopeneru0022u003ebooksu003c/au003e. The summit of Chris’s work is his u003ca href=u0022https://chrislaffra.com/c4e#booku0022 target=u0022_blanku0022 rel=u0022noreferrer noopeneru0022u003eCommunication for Engineersu003c/au003e book and the accompanying interactive C4E course. u003cbru003eu003cbru003eEvery engineer, even the most successful one, hits a bump in their career at some point. Usually, this happens when they reach a certain level and wonder if this is all there is. In other cases, it may be an existential question about whether to continue as an individual contributor or as a manager.
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Books by Chris
Communication | Software tech
Communication for Engineers
The book C4E was authored by Chris Laffra, a software professional targeting fellow engineers in the field. It offers insights into a range of communication skills essential for those in software development.u003cbru003eu003cbru003eWhile some skills, like self-awareness, apply broadly, others, such as the art of writing clean code, are tailored specifically for engineers. The result is a comprehensive coverage of communication as it concerns software engineers with many practical and relevant tips to follow.u003cbru003e
