I Built a Career Intelligence Tool for Staff+ Engineers — Here's the Technical Architecture
The standard advice for senior engineers is “be more strategic.” Nobody provides tooling for what that actually means in practice. Most productivity and knowledge management tools are built for managers or PMs. The senior IC workflow — navigating informal power structures, tracking skill bets across years, building visibility without a title change — doesn’t fit any standard category. Notion, Confluence, JIRA: these are collaboration tools optimized for teams, not personal career intelligence. ...