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chore: Remove Outdated Sec Principal Priorities Page

Lucas Charles requested to merge remove-sec-principal-engineer-page into master

Why is this change being made?

As discussed previously, this page is outdated and not an accurate reflection of the Sec Principal engineers priorities. While it was very useful in defining the initial goals when the role begin, it is not regularly updated and instead has performed some double-duty with section-wide priorities, which should ultimately be tracked in a different manner.

Per 1:1 discussion with @twoodham, 1:1 discussion with @pcalder, and previous sync with @sarahwaldner and @sam.white I'm proposing removal.

As a minimal change for accurately tracking my immediate priorities, I've been including areas of focus via my personal README with a current review cadence of every two weeks.

One of the related aspects of previous discussions on this topic was around maintaining a shared section-wide list of priorities. While this sounds useful and possibly orthogonal to our devsecops adoption priorities I feel that's out of scope of the nature of this change as the priorities of an individual role cannot be equated to the section's. See this discussion for more context there.

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  • chore: Remove Outdated Sec Principal Priorities Page

This list is outdated and while useful to align on initial priorities, doesn't accurately reflect areas of focus.


Edited by Lucas Charles

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