Big Boy Pants: Becoming a World Class Developer

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1. Big Boy Pants: Becoming a World Class Developer PROSPER OTEMUYIWA - @unicodeveloper
2. Speaker Bio e 2 ❖ Software Developer ❖ Consultant at Auth0 ❖ Open Sourcerer ❖ Self-Acclaimed Developer Evangelist ❖ Community Builder ❖ Jollof Rice Ambassador ❖ Google Developer Expert ❖ Homeless Man
3. Technical/ Technical? 3 1. How to be a great developer? 2. How to be a 6-figure developer? 3. How to be a Celebrity developer?
4. Developing is a lot like cooking!
5. Technical/ Technical? 5 There’s more to career advancement than solving tough programming challenges.
6. Big Boy Pants: World Class Developer 6 Great code is fine, yet commanding better work and a higher salary depends on ensuring more people know who you are.
7. Technical/ Technical? 7 Technical Skills are overrated. Are they?
8. 1. Excellent Technical Skills Business Domain Knowledge is Critical….
9. Big Boy Pants: World Class Developer 9 Think of your skills as a feature and make yourself an API through which you expose this feature to your team mates, client & community.
10. 2. Run a Blog Thought Leadership….
11. 3. Contribute to Open Source
12. 4. Eye on the Shiny new stuff, hands on the practical.
13. 5. Be flexible in your hold on knowledge.
14. 6. Soft skills are underrated amongst developers. Change the status quo!
15. 6. Know thy tools as a craftsman Simple tools for complex problems put a shine on the developer.
16. 7. Become an authority on a subject or domain area. Thought Leadership….
17. 8. Follow great developers & soak yourself in Engineering blogs.
18. Big Boy Pants: World Class Developer - Resources 1 8 ❖ Customer collaboration over contract negotiation ❖ Responding to change over following a plan ❖ Working Software over comprehensive documentation Work Hard, But Be Smart!
19. Big Boy Pants: World Class Developer - Resources 1 9 ❖ Software Architecture for Developers - Technical Leadership and the balance with agility by Simon Brown ❖ The Software Developer’s Manual by John Sonmez ❖ The Pragmatic Programmer: From Journeyman to Master
20. Thank you, guys! Now, go forth & wear those pants!!!