Technical career advice

Software Career Personal Growth

  • reputation within the company

    • always be shipping
    • give frequent update
    • assume PMs and leadership anxious to know
  • reputation in the industry

    • blog posts, best 1 deep than 10 shallow
    • speaking at conferences
  • continuing education

    • read books, not blogs
    • do lots of side projects
  • take responsibility for your career trajectory

    • find good mentors (excellent technical colleagues, not just career advice once a month over coffee)
    • develop a valuable and unique skillset

https://richardartoul.medium.com/from-coding-bootcamp-graduate-to-building-distributed-databases-29acbb723d8