My goals for 2025

Below is the result of a collaboration between my team lead and myself, on how to grow as a software engineer in 2025.

Team work

The following highlights essential practices for building effective teamwork and collaboration.

• Create healthy conflict.

  • Azure DevOps comments per pull request review metric.

  • Jira comments per story.

• Promote innovation.

  • Contribute to lunch & learn opportunities.

  • Bi-weekly professional develompent time.

• Mentorship.

  • Meet with full-stack developer bi-weekly to teach frontend topics.

  • Meet with QA engineer bi-weekly to teach TypeScript and web concepts.

• Provide substantial feedback to the broader organization.

  • Push accessibility across all products.

  • Set automated frontend coding standard checks.

• Drive collaboration to decision making.

  • Leads design/architecture discussions.

  • Effectively create design diagrams: Excalidraw, markmap.

  • Hold and lead brainstorming sessions using the silent meeting approach.

  • Learn to create accurate and detailed sequence diagrams.

• Actively look for and address tech debt.

  • Jira metrics on tech debt stories created.

  • Jira metrics on tech debt stories completed.

• Become exceptional at problem diagnostics.

  • Debug distributed systems.

  • Automatically detect perform degradation.

  • Altering pipeline library/steps.

• Evangelize.

  • Document learnings into blogs.

  • Join hackathons/D3 events.

  • Attend local meet ups.

Learning

In order to grow as a full-stack developer, learning new technologies and gaining deeper understanding of technologies that I currently use will be key.

• Database Management.

  • RDBMS - Introduction to Relational Databases.

  • PGSQL - Learn PostgreSQL Tutorial.

  • Liquibase - Liquibase University.

  • DataGrip - DataGrip Overview.

  • DataDog - DataDog 101.

  • TSQL - TSQL Tutorial.

  • Other topics.

    • How to Profile SQL Queries for Better Performance.

    • Introduction to Profiling and Optimizing SQL Queries for Software Engineers.

    • Clustered vs non-clustered indexes.

• Object Oriented Programming.

  • SOLID - SOLID Principles: Introducing Software Architecture & Design.

  • LINQ - Learn C#: Lists and LINQ.

  • Design Patterns - Refactoring Guru.

  • CQRS - Clarified CQRS.

• Frontend.

  • React.

    • Meta - React Basics.

    • Meta - Advanced React.

    • Roadmap.sh - React.

  • Web accessibility.

    • Web Accessibility.

    • Meta - HTML and CSS in depth.

    • A11ycasts with Rob Dodson.

• Other topics.

  • Authentication - Introduction to Web Authentication.

  • JWT - What are JSON Web Tokens?

  • Character Encodings - Must Know About Unicode and Character Sets.

  • Time and Time Zones - Date and Time Fundamentals.

  • Storybook - A Beginner’s Guide to Storybook 7 with React.

  • Networking Concepts - Networking for DevOps – a Complete Guide.

  • Docker - Complete Docker Course.

  • Pen Testing - The Basics of Penetration Testing.

  • Documentation - Technical Writing.