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10 Lessons To Help You Excel in Your Developer Career
How to set yourself up for a sustainable career in engineering — lessons that have served me well so far
On July 15th, 2020, I celebrated my one-year anniversary as an employed Frontend Developer. Reflecting on the long process of getting here, there were things I learned that I felt were important for me to remember. I spoke about these at a talk for Developer Student Clubs GITA, and I’m finally writing them down in an article for posterity!
Some Background and Context
My name is Annie, and I transitioned largely from a design and teaching background into web development. The information and insights I’m presenting here are specific to my experience in a fast-paced agency environment, where I worked on multiple projects.
From July 15th, 2019 to September 25th, 2020, I contributed to 23 different projects, including architecting the entire frontend of several websites from scratch. I’m now in my second role at a SaaS(Software as a Service) start-up, but the lessons I’m writing about here are based on my specific experiences from a web development bootcamp and in this agency environment, as well as conversations with other developers throughout this time period.
