Communities for Staff+ Engineers?
Are there any communities (Discord servers, forums, IRC channels, etc) geared towards staff+ engineers?
There are times I just want to participate in high level discussions or bounce an idea off of a group of peers dealing with similar challenges. It seems most solve this by reaching out in-network, but I'm hoping there's something out there that's a little more structured and self-selected.
Whatever the solution is, it would be great to be able to filter out people who have inflated their own titles. Bouncing ideas off Staff+ level engineers would be great, but not if it's permeated with "CTO"s, "VP of Engineer"s, or "Lead Engineer"s that just graduated from HackReactor the week prior and founded their own blog and called it a company.
I find https://leaddev.com/ has some good content, unsure if there's an associated Slack/Discord server for it.
We are currently building this platform for technical and engineering bottlenecks. Generally each company has a developer relations department to help customers integrate, for example Stripe and Hasura have a Discord, IRC (dev relations as a service). But we are looking at making this more accessible. Wondering how this could best suit what you are looking for, open for suggestions!
https://affordance.app
Hacker News :)
You probably won't get frontpage traction with a generic AskHN post, but you might still get some traction and discussion, as we see here.
r/ExperiencedDevs has some stuff in there.
Who are the audience of the community, is it engineers at companies, independent developers or founders?
What would be the focus, is it scaling issues, security attacks, technical debt insurance, tools and infra advice?
Could you post an example challenge? Would these be technical or managerial?