Growing as a Software Developer

Plan growth from junior toward senior work using employer criteria, scoped evidence, feedback, safe ownership, skill gaps, and a dated development review.

Make a permission-first open source contribution by reading project rules, reproducing an issue, protecting private data, testing changes, and handling review.

Compare technical career tracks with employer-specific role definitions, scope evidence, skill gaps, sponsorship needs, trade-offs, and a review plan.

Practice system design with explicit requirements, capacity math, APIs, data models, failures, security, privacy, cost, recovery, and scored trade-offs.