An Autistic Journey To Google Staff Engineer [L6] From Software Analyst - By Lee McKeeman

Lee McKeeman is an autistic software engineer with quite an incredible journey: Across a whopping ~20 years of experience, Lee has worked at Amazon (where he was an engineering manager and bar raiser), Meta, and now Google.

In this session, Lee will talk about his journey from software analyst all the way to becoming a Staff Engineer [L6] at Google. In particular, he'll talk about some of the ways autism both helped and hurt him, how it was a superpower sometimes and a liability in others.

Lee will also talk about how you can be an ally to autistic engineers and other neurodivergent folks in the industry.

To learn more from Lee, you should 100% connect with him on LinkedIn where he writes some of the best posts (and comments) on the entire platform: Lee's LinkedIn

Here's some of the incredible wisdom Lee has shared on Taro:

• "What does it mean to not require handholding anymore?"
• "How to Balance Responsibilities: Prioritizing Personal Work vs. 'Glue Work' in a New Team Environment."
• "Can someone elaborate on "always treating feedback as a gift"?"
• "What do career levels structure in big tech company look like? What are the responsibilities for each level?"