Individual Contributor Career Growth w/ Matt Klein (part 1)

What does a long career as an individual contributor look like? The answer isn't always clear cut, especially if you're given the option of becoming a manager. Today, we'll talk to Matt Klein about how he approaches this in part 1 of our two part interview.

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Matt is on the engineering team at Lyft and one of the main contributors to the open source project, Envoy.

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