> As I get more comfortable with my abilities the constant stream of interruptions is bugging me. How do I deal with this? I've talked to my boss that I am into too many meetings and he has said I can go offline and skip meetings, yet he expects me to be in meetings because he requires my expertise for complicated technical subjects that come up.

I don't get it. Attending meetings is work as well. If you got distracted because of meetings and you couldn't finish your "coding tasks", then that's fine because you finished your "meeting tasks".

Some days, in the standups I say:

- yesterday I did attend 2 meetings, couldn't focus on Jira issue XX because of that - today I will continue on Jira issue XX, but since I have 3 meetings, I will need more time to finish

My managers: all right