Forging Your Path to Senior Developer

Explore the journey from mid-level to senior developer in this 30-minute RailsConf 2023 talk. Discover a growth framework that illuminates the path to becoming a trusted senior developer, covering technical mastery, leadership skills, and personal development. Learn how to build a bigger picture, solve common problems, improve efficiency, and own larger features. Gain insights on pairing, content consumption and generation, coaching, mentoring, and balancing your time. Understand the importance of working with others, tackling unknown challenges, and developing autonomy. Whether following in others' footsteps or blazing your own trail, find guidance on forging your unique path to technical leadership and senior developer status.

Introduction
About Ifat
Agenda
Growth Framework
Scale Framework
Meet our Developer
Andys Journey
Technical Pillar
Conventions Patterns
Mid Developer
Problem Solving
Build a Bigger Picture
Common Problems
Growing Up
Leadership
Pairing
Content Consumption
Generating Content
Learning Common Tools
Reflection
Whats Next
The Technical Pillar
Efficiency
Owning Larger Features
Improving Technical Mastery
Working with Others
Authentication
Unknown Unknowns
Coaching Mentoring
Tools and Processes
Autonomous
Path is Bright
Technical Leadership Path
Thank you
How to balance your time