MIC - my journey in Applifting

Timeline

Key achievements 🏅

• Kodu
  • finishing project independently
• Delivered core features at Skoala
  • ​presenter, SSM - slide configuration
• Led and taken part in presentations
  • ​first team, MVP, production
• CMS research
  • Skoala newsfeed - Payload
• Constantly learning & improving

DEMO

• slide config refactor
• presenter in Skoala

Demonstrating senior qualities 👴

• Ownership & Independence
  • complex tasks & taking on core features
• Efficiency & output
  • delivery speed & optimized workflow
• Broad technical knowledge
  • education & experience
• Contribution beyond coding
  • research, candidate review, mentoring ...
• Initiative
  • ​soft skills - presentations
  • quality of work & solving problems
    • slide config, refactoring

Impact on Applifting

• Helped beyond delivery
  • interview, estimation, mentoring

• Took initiative in non-dev tasks

  • ​presentations, research

• Influence on Applifting FE style guide

• Possible candidate for technology choice

  • Payload - CMS research

What others say 💬

🔗 feedback survey summary

• Very positive  feedback
  • talking to the team
  • gathered results from survey

Areas for growth 📈

• soft skills
  • ​​public speaking, steakholder communicaiton
• deeper knowledge
  • ​backend, architecture, infrastructure
• taking more initiative
  • ​team workflows & bringing ideas
  • sharing my input even more

Vision as a senior 🔮

Mid term goal (6-18 months)

• drive technical decisions
• lead key features of project/s
• mentor devs on complex topics
• influence architecture, CI/CD, performance ...

Long term goal (2-3 years)

• lead system-wide architecture
• technical advisor - scalability, infra, design
• contribution to hiring, onboarding, internal education

Staff engineer / Principal engineer / Architect

I would say I am ready 🏁

I believe I have:

• demonstrated senior level capabilities
• made a measurable impact
• shown I am willing to contribute at high level

Now I would like to hear from you 🫵

• Questions
• Feedback
• Ideas