Become an Engineering Leader Everyone Wants to Work With

Hosted by Gregor Ojstersek and David Weiss

Wed, Jul 23, 2025

3:00 PM UTC (30 minutes)

Virtual (Zoom)

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Senior Engineer to Lead: Grow and thrive in the role
Gregor Ojstersek

What you'll learn

Skills and competencies to thrive in a lead role

What particular traits make you a great engineering leader that everyone wants to work with.

How to think as a leader

The mindset shift is crucial and understanding that your individual contribution is less important than team results.

Examples from personal experiences

Both of the hosts will be sharing personal examples from their roles.

Why this topic matters

Join this LIVE lesson from Gregor Ojstersek and David Weiss. Being in a lead role is not easy -> you become a multiplier for the team and helping others around you becomes one of the main priorities. You are not judged by your individual contribution anymore, the overall success of the team and projects is what becomes important.

You'll learn from

Gregor Ojstersek

CTO | Author of Engineering Leadership newsletter (147k+ subscribers)

Gregor is an engineering leader with over 12 years of experience in the engineering industry.

In his career, he grew as an engineer to Senior Software Engineer and after to Lead roles (Team Lead to Engineering Manager to Head of Engineering to VP of Engineering to CTO).

With over 200k followers across all the social platforms, he is helping a lot of people to become great engineering leaders.

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David Weiss

Lead Software Engineer | Author of Besides Code newsletter

David helps software engineers lead and grow by elevating their people skills.

By day, he is a a Lead Software Engineer. By night, a solopreneur working on his side business.

As a leader, he focuses on supporting others and motivating them to do great work. Being an engineering leader lets him use his experience to help others grow—not just as software engineers, but as humans too.

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