High Growth Engineer

High Growth Engineer

Operating Principles That Guided Me to Staff Engineer (Part 2: Expanding Influence)

Deliver more results through influence, relationships, and stronger communication

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Jordan Cutler
Sep 21, 2025
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In Part 1, I shared the principles that helped me consistently deliver results and reach Staff Engineer. But results don’t happen in a vacuum. They depend on the influence you have to make change happen. Influence drives results, and results compound to more influence.

(1) Build influence, (2) Take on larger projects requiring influence, (3) Become known for delivering. Repeat

In this part, I’ll share the guiding principles that helped me build influence to mak…

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