Forging Your Path to Senior Developer

You've mastered syntax and conventions, your team trusts your code, and you're working on more complicated features. On more challenging tasks, you often pair with your team lead, a senior developer who seems to know everything. You think to yourself, that's who I want to be, how do I get there? Fear not, mid-developer, that senior developer you admire was once in your shoes! This talk will illuminate the path you're on, providing you guidance on following those footsteps, or trailblazing your own, to achieve your objective of becoming a senior developer.

Transcript

1.   Forging Your Path to Senior Developer
2.  Ifat Ribon Principal Architect @ LaunchPad Lab @i_ribon9 inveterateliterate
3.  Today’s Journey Gearing Up From Junior to Mid Midday Rest Reaching Senior The Next Adventure
4.  Technical Problem Solving Leadership Gearing Up
5.  Familiarity Mastery Dependency Autonomy Receiving Promoting Proficiency Guidance Collaborating Gearing Up
6.  From Junior to Mid
7.  Technical Problem Solving Leadership Familiar Dependent Receptive From Junior to Mid
8.  Improving code quality Getting it to work Applying design principles Learning conventions and patterns Executing mid-large size feature sets Small feature tweaks and bug fixes From Junior to Mid
9.  Technical Problem Solving Leadership From Junior to Mid
10.  Understanding the larger picture Solving the immediate problem De-risking early with questions Missing edge cases or adding complexity Reusing solutions to learned problems Learning types of problems From Junior to Mid
11.  Technical Problem Solving Leadership From Junior to Mid
12.  Pairing with peers Pairing with more experienced devs Creating content Consuming content Contributing to developer tools and libraries Learning common tools and libraries From Junior to Mid
13.  Technical Problem Solving Leadership From Junior to Mid
14.  Technical Problem Solving Leadership Midday Rest
15.  Familiarity Dependency Receiving Proficiency Guidance Collaborating Midday Rest
16.  The Next Leg
17.  Leading with efficient code Improving code quality Creating new design patterns Applying design principles Owning complex features and spikes Executing mid-large size feature sets Reaching Senior
18.  Technical Problem Solving Leadership Reaching Senior
19.  Sequencing and organizing solutions Understanding the larger picture Reducing unknown unknowns De-risking early with questions Resolving ambiguity with pattern recognition Reusing solutions to learned problems Reaching Senior
20.  Problem Solving Leadership Reaching Senior Technical
21.  Coaching and mentoring across levels Pairing with peers Driving thought leadership and strategy Creating content Developing or maintaining internal tools or libraries Contributing to developer tools and libraries Reaching Senior
22.  Leadership Reaching Senior Problem Solving Technical
23.  Technical Problem Solving Leadership Reaching Senior
24.  Familiarity Dependency Receiving Proficiency Guidance Collaborating Mastery Autonomy Promoting Reaching Senior
25.  What Next?
26.  Team Lead 
 (Lead Dev / Engineering Manager) Architecting (Principal / Solutions Engineer) Technical Expert 
 (IC / Staff) The Next Adventure
27.  Thank You! Ifat Ribon @i_ribon9 inveterateliterate
28.  Q&A