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Re:Interview with Jeff Atwood, Co-Founder of Stack Overflow by scarface_74 on Thursday January 23, 2025 @04:55AM (#42802486)
Honestly, there is no easy way. It was partially strategic and partially luck. I started down this path in 2016. The only actionable advice I can give is start taking on projects with greater scope, impact and that is closer to dealing with the “business”. Work on your soft skills and presentation skills.

My favorite book is “The Geek Leaders Handbook”

2016 - I chose a job that would give me a chance to lead my first green field major implementation from scratch over one that paid more. But I would have just been pulling tickets off the board. I was first exposed to AWS here. But “consultants” did all of the AWS setup. After I started learning AWS, I realized that they were just a bunch of old school operations people. I thought I could be a better consultant since I knew software development and could learn cloud.

2018 - this happened

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37446115

2020 - a job at AWS ProServe fell into my lap

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38474212

2023 - After getting Amazoned, I got a full time job at a 3rd party consulting company doing the same thing.

2024 - left there and got another job as a “staff software architect” at another consulting company.

And this is what I do now.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42709059

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Re:Interview with Jeff Atwood, Co-Founder of Stack Overflow by connectsnk on Thursday January 23, 2025 @08:19AM (#42803698)
This is hugely helpful and one of the most helpful things I read. Thanks for your kindness. This is a very good blueprint on how to think about career advancement at our age. Thanks again
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Re:Interview with Jeff Atwood, Co-Founder of Stack Overflow by scarface_74 on Thursday January 23, 2025 @08:22AM (#42803716)
No problem
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