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4 Ways to Build Seniority from Jason Swett

Jacob Herrington (he/him) on August 10, 2019

A few months ago, I had the chance to interview Jason Swett. Jason is a Ruby developer and an entrepreneur; he has built a consulting business arou...
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Andrew Brown 🇨🇦

When are you Senior Developer? 3 years in? 10 years in?

I remember in Toronto recruiters were asking a few years ago for Senior React Developers when React had only been around 2 years.

AWS and Security are my more recent ventures and I've fast-tracked that knowledge because of tech talks. Whatever you don't know you will know after a talk because there's always a few smarter people in the room that want to school you, and I welcome it. They fill all the gaps.

I'm 6 months into Security and now I'm organizing a Security Conference. That's power-levelling and anyone can do it.