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Andrew Baisden
Andrew Baisden

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What is your current job title and what do you aspire to be?

I see myself as a Full Stack Developer and plan to stick with this career path for now as I enjoy working on the frontend, backend and on mobile.

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Santosh Kumar

I am a CG Pipeline Developer, I mostly work with Python with other computer graphics related libraries to create and maintain a production pipeline.

I want to work as a Backend Developer in the same industry and switch to other industries.

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Arnaud Joubay • Edited

My current job titles are "Untitled" at the company I co-founded and co-operate, and "Me" at my holding.
While I imagined those as a pun at first, I think they reflect the complexities and natures of my roles perfectly, so I kept them.

I aspire to be that forever because I'm having a lot of fun.

While I use "Untitled" and "Me" in my LinkedIn bio in the companies section, the "title" people see under my name explain what I do (my occupation) in a more concrete way.
People need an easy way to put you in a box, so I still offer than, but it isn't a job title per se.

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Ben Sinclair

I'm not 100% sure. What it says on my contract and what I'm billed out as depends on the client, and what role I'm assuming. We're not pulling the wool over anyone's eyes, that's just how life works in an agency :)

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Nelson

Well, I am currently a fitter, engaged more on construction work. I have a passion to be a full stack web dev.

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Heather Williams

While I am a back end developer on paper I actually wear a large number of hats. This is what happens in a small team (both company and dev). So I do front end, back end, devops, dabble in security, dabble in design, and any other tasks that come up that are related to dev.

Over a long career dabbling in programming I have had the chance to make epubs, create beautiful pdf's, get hundreds of files for textbooks onto a website, make some educational content and now support the website by making new features, fixing existing features and helping maintain the servers. It has been fun.

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Fionna Chan

I have been in frontend web development for 5 years, working with jQuery, React, Vue, and now Web Components via Polymer. Currently at work I get to come up with styling decisions. I'd love to grow more on the UI/UX side to become a true Frontend Unicorn πŸ¦„!

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Arthur Fedderson

Current job title is "old unemployed auto mechanic". Aspiring to be an open source full stack developer / hardware designer. Learning so much, every day, and right now my biggest ambition is picking up a ticket for an open source project that I can accomplish. Contribution to projects and growing a portfolio are the things most on my mind at the moment.

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Guillaume GAGNAIRE

Currently, i'm CTO, but i want to be like a "innovation chief" :') managing people is hard, i'm more like a coach who likes to teach than a manager who tracks people time and activity

I would like to only test, create new solutions

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Francis Rubio

I am currently a web development teacher to high school students right now. I don't see myself staying here, as I also want to get back into freelance web development or working with a company. But I also want to create web development learning materials in my native language to help other people get into creating web sites.

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Maxim Chechenev

Frontend Engineer.
To be honest, I don't really care how does my title look like. "senior", "lead", "developer", "engineer", etc. Because anyway it's about my knowledge and experience, so I'm fine with any title. But, of course, in a lot of places title affects things like salary, responsibilities, promotions, so it's still better to have a nice title :)

After 9 years of development, I understood that management and people's side are more interesting for me. Dealing with humans is something that I really like (more than fixing code haha).

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Jonesey712

I am a Support Developer. I try to take things one step at a time, so I aspire to be a Full Stack Developer where I work. I'm only 4 months in so I have ways to go and a lot of learning to do!

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Idris Rampurawala

My current title is Senior Full stack developer which is mainly because I can create solutions (both back-end and front-end) from scratch and also deploye it ok cloud platforms. Though it's really interesting as I get to work on all aspects and also get exposed to lot of real issues. But I aspire to become Lead / technical Manager moving up in my role as I am good at managing things and have received a lot of positive feedback in the same. Goal is all set, so as my learning path! πŸ˜…πŸ˜‰

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btlm

My current title is simple Frontend Developer and all I do is implementing designer's ideas into HTML views in Angular application with a bit of logic if needed.
In future I want to be a fullstack developer with Node.js on backend (what I am learning in my spare time).

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Andrew Baisden

Thats unfortunate I don't know how some companies can give you a sales pitch about "career progression" but then give you no option for training to meet that goal.

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dillan teagle

Current - Lead Software Engineer at Optum

Aspire - My own LLC as a software engineer