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Implementers, Solvers,
and Finders
Rethinking the developer career path
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What does
Senior mean?
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What does Senior mean?
→ Expensive
→ Bored
→ Opinionated
→ From Minnesota
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Years of
experience
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What should
Senior mean?
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We need new
words
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Quantifiable
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Give
engineers a
way forward
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Describe the
work we do
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Solution Implementer
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Problem Solver
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Problem Finder
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Solution
Implementer
→ Given solutions
→ Produces code
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Problem Solver
→ Given problems
→ Produces solutions
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Problem Finder
→ Given context
→ Discovers & prioritizes new
problems
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Where we go
wrong
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Software
Architect
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Not
mentoring
implementers
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UI squeeze
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Impostor
syndrome
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THANK YOU
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