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Adrianna 5 Year Goal - Coggle Diagram
Adrianna 5 Year Goal
Senior Software Engineer
Leadership
Communication: Clearly articulating ideas, explaining technical complexities to non-technical stakeholders, and ensuring everyone on the team understands the goals and technical decisions.
Mentoring and Coaching: Guiding and developing junior engineers, helping them grow their skills, and offering constructive feedback.
Team Collaboration: Facilitating effective teamwork and ensuring everyone is aligned and working cohesively.
Decision Making: Evaluating various solutions and making informed choices, even in the face of uncertainty.
Conflict Resolution: Mediating disagreements, whether they're technical or interpersonal, and finding common ground.
Delegation: Knowing when and how to delegate tasks effectively, ensuring the right people are working on the right problems.
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Influence: Being able to advocate for and drive technical decisions, even in the face of opposition or differing opinions.
Empathy: Understanding and addressing the needs and concerns of team members, stakeholders, and users.
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Continuous Improvement: Promoting a culture of learning and improvement, both in terms of technical skills and processes.
Time Management: Prioritizing tasks and ensuring that both immediate and long-term goals are addressed.
Strategic Thinking: Looking beyond the immediate technical tasks and understanding the broader implications of decisions on the project or organization.
Adaptability: Being open to change and guiding the team through shifts in technology, requirements, or priorities.
Stakeholder Management: Building relationships with product managers, designers, business leaders, and others to ensure alignment and effective collaboration.
Risk Management: Identifying, evaluating, and addressing potential risks in projects or technical decisions.
Resource Management: Ensuring the team has the necessary tools, training, and resources to succeed.
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Networking: Building and maintaining relationships within and outside the organization to stay informed and bring in external perspectives.
Championing Diversity and Inclusion: Advocating for and fostering an environment where diverse perspectives are valued and included.
Technical Expterise
Proficient in Multiple Programming Languages: Being well-versed in several languages is beneficial, as it offers flexibility in choosing the best tool for the job. This includes Ruby, Python, Javascript, Bash
Deep Understanding of Algorithms and Data Structures: Knowing when and how to use certain algorithms or data structures can greatly influence the efficiency and effectiveness of a solution.
System Design: Ability to design scalable and robust systems, understanding both high-level architecture and low-level intricacies.
Databases: Mastery over various types of databases (relational, NoSQL, etc.), their architectures, and optimization techniques.
Networking: Understanding of protocols, API integrations, and the basics of network architecture.
Version Control: Proficiency with tools like Git, understanding branching strategies, and effective collaboration in distributed teams.
Testing: Knowledge of various testing paradigms (unit tests, integration tests, etc.), test-driven development (TDD), and tools/frameworks for automated testing.
Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment (CI/CD): Understanding of integration, deployment pipelines, and tools to automate these processes.
Cloud Services: Experience with cloud platforms like AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud, and understanding the services they offer.
Performance Optimization: Ability to identify bottlenecks and optimize code for performance and scalability.
Security: Awareness of security best practices, understanding of common vulnerabilities (like those in the OWASP Top 10), and how to mitigate them.
Software Development Methodologies: Familiarity with methodologies like Agile, Scrum, or Kanban and how to use them effectively.
API Design and Development: Knowledge of best practices for designing and implementing APIs, understanding RESTful services, GraphQL, etc.
Microservices Architecture: Understanding the principles of microservices, including communication patterns, service discovery, and distributed data management.
Containers and Orchestration: Familiarity with containerization tools like Docker and orchestration platforms like Kubernetes.
Domain-Specific Knowledge: There might be specific tools, technologies, or standards that are crucial to the hospitality industry like PMS systems.
Front-End Development (if full-stack): Mastery of front-end frameworks/libraries (like React, Angular, Vue), understanding of HTML, CSS, and the DOM, and proficiency with tools like Webpack or Babel.
Mobile Development (if relevant): Experience with mobile platforms (iOS, Android) and mobile development frameworks (like React Native or Flutter).
Hardware Understanding: Basic knowledge of hardware can be beneficial, especially when performance tuning or dealing with IoT/embedded systems.
Emerging Technologies: Keeping an eye on and gaining expertise in emerging technologies that are relevant to the domain or industry.
Problem Solving
Analytical Thinking: Ability to break down complex problems into smaller, manageable components.
Algorithmic and Logical Thinking: Ability to design efficient algorithms and understand the trade-offs involved in various solutions.
Debugging Skills: Diagnosing, isolating, and fixing code and system issues.
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Architectural Design: Ability to design scalable, maintainable, and flexible software architectures.
Systems Thinking: Understanding how different components and systems interact and how a change in one part might affect others.
Research Ability: Keeping updated with the latest technological advancements and knowing when and how to implement them.
Tool Proficiency: Proficiency in using various tools and platforms, including version control, continuous integration, and profiling tools.
Understanding of Trade-offs: Recognizing the trade-offs between performance, scalability, maintainability, and other attributes.
Risk Assessment: Ability to assess and address potential risks in your solutions, such as security vulnerabilities.
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Testing and Validation: Designing tests to ensure software correctness, performance, and reliability.
Interdisciplinary Knowledge: Often, solutions require a bit of knowledge outside of pure software engineering, like understanding the basics of networking, databases, and even sometimes hardware considerations.
Soft Skills
Communication: Explaining technical complexities in simple terms to non-technical stakeholders or mentoring junior developers.
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Decision Making: Making decisions that take into account both short-term deliverables and long-term implications.
Time Management: Prioritizing tasks effectively, especially when dealing with multiple pressing issues.
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Continuous Learning: The tech world evolves rapidly. Senior engineers need the ability and willingness to constantly learn and adapt.
Documentation: Crafting clear and effective documentation that aids future development and troubleshooting.
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