9 Lessons I Learned on the Road to Becoming a Senior Web Developer
My Extraordinary Year in Review: 2021 — Part 2
A lot of things happened in 2021, but looking back at the last 12 months when it came to my engineering career, I had two primary goals in mind:
- I wanted to start and maintain an engineering-focused blog
- I wanted to become a senior web developer
If you are curious to know more about my blogging endeavors, feel free to jump over to part one of the article: “Blogging, Writing, and Sharing Knowledge with the Elixir Community.”
However, in today’s blog post, I want to share the story of how I became a senior web developer and some of the lessons I learned while working towards accomplishing my goal.
First of all, let me give you a little bit of context.
I have been a web developer since 2016. During this time, I had the chance to get exposure to several different tech stacks across various applications. I have worked with Ruby on Rails, Elixir on Phoenix, Vue.js, GraphQL, TailwindCSS, and many other frameworks and technologies.
At the start of 2020, I had already built a decent technical foundation that allowed me to work independently on various software projects. Consequently, I was capable of making decisions…
