How to Grow Your Tech Career Without Losing Your Spark for Coding
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How to advance as a software engineer without leaving hands‑on coding: concrete career paths and strategies that prioritize technical mastery over traditional management tracks. The talk presents practical plans, examples and tips for engineers to grow professionally while continuing to code, based on experience with technologies like JavaScript, SQL, AWS, Vue.js and Ruby on Rails.
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chapters (23)
- 0:00Introduction
- 1:13What is Pokémon and its evolution
- 2:41Programmer evolution
- 4:08Juan the COBOL programmer story
- 5:38Career plans for devs
- 6:44Tech and language evolution
- 8:11Tech salaries and demand
- 10:01Tech roles and levels
- 12:09Career plan risks
- 13:54Hard and soft skills
- 16:23Professional growth options
- 17:45Professor OC's advice
- 19:32Pikachu adaptation metaphor
- 20:35Q&A: AI and challenges
- 22:20Q&A: Adaptability
- 24:50Q&A: Role changes
- 26:55Q&A: Time and growth
- 28:01Q&A: Training and leadership
- 30:32Q&A: Tech stack
- 32:17Q&A: Career plans
- 33:20Q&A: Stack changes
- 34:45Q&A: Language migration
- 35:27Closing
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