Elevate your technical career with practical guidance, best practices, and actionable insights shared by industry experts
Key Features
- Develop the right skills to advance your career with comprehensive skill development
- Explore practical examples and case studies for real-world career guidance
- Understand the importance of networking and community engagement for professional growth
- Purchase of the print or Kindle book includes a free PDF eBook
Book Description
Written by industry experts that have spent the last 20+ years helping developers grow their careers, this book offers invaluable insights and guidance tailored to the specific needs of technical professionals. By discovering the secret of continuous learning and adapting in the ever-evolving field of software development, you'll explore various learning paths with formal and informal methods, as well as gain an understanding of the value of certifications to validate your skills. This book will teach you the significance of building a strong support network, holding crucial conversations, and taking ownership of your career growth. You'll delve into acquiring both soft and hard skills, becoming a well-rounded and sought-after developer. Packed with practical examples, stories of successful developers, and real-world applications, the chapters will equip you with actionable advice on how to push beyond your comfort zone and embracing communities to enhance your teamwork abilities. Additionally, you'll uncover the benefits of joining open-source projects, speaking at conferences, and building a personal brand to amplify your visibility and reputation. By the end of this book, you'll have a well-laid-out long-term and short-term plan for your career progression, equipping you with advanced technical skills, strategic thinking, and the ability to effectively manage relationships within your organization.
What you will learn
- Explore skills needed to grow your career
- Participate in community and mentorship programs
- Build your technical knowledge for growth
- Discover how to network and use social media
- Understand the impact of public speaking
- Identify the critical conversations to advance your career
- Participate in non-technical activities to enhance your career
Who this book is for
This book is for technical professionals, particularly developers, seeking practical career growth guidelines and best practices. It addresses both junior and senior developers, offering valuable insights and experiences from within the developer community.
Table of Contents
- The secret to learn technology fast and continuously
- Choose your best path for Learning, Training and Certifications
- Optimize Your Support Network for Growth
- Acquire the right Soft and Hard skills deliberately
- Push yourself by improving outside of your comfort zone
- Become a team player by embracing communities
- Focus your growth by giving and receiving mentoring
- Be part of a larger group: Meeting people at User Groups and Meetups
- Grow your network using Social Media
- Build deep, lasting relationships at Conferences and in person activities
- Build trust with top developers and solve important problems by joining Open Source
- Build trust at scale by sharing Publicly through Speaking and blogs
- Be a leader, Manage up, down and across your organization
- Step up your technology game: Define technology instead of merely using it
- Build your Personal brand and be respected and requested as a trusted advisor
Heather VanCura is a Senior Director at Oracle in the Standards Strategy & Architecture team. She is the Director and Chairperson of the Java Community Process (JCP) program. In this role she leads the organization and chairs the JCP Executive Committee, composed of top global enterprises in the world. She serves as an international speaker, and an organizer of developer events around the world, engaging with open source groups and user groups. She regularly mentors developers at all career levels, leads coding workshops that extend into local communities to inspire young developers from diverse backgrounds, and delivers keynote presentations on these topics, including her signature series: How to Ally for Diversity & Women in Tech. Heather has worked with developers and technology executives for the past twenty years at Oracle, Sun Microsystems and at SCO Unix. She has served on the boards of Dress for Success and FIRST LEGO League NorCal, and regularly volunteers with organizations such as Andela, Rippleworks, Women Who Code, IEEE Women in Engineering, Anita Borg, and Professional BusinessWomen of California.
Bruno Souza is a Java Developer and Open Source Evangelist. As founder and coordinator of SouJava (Sociedade de Usuários da Tecnologia Java; Java Technology Users Society) and leader of the Worldwide Java User Groups Community at Java.net, Bruno helped in the creation and organization of hundreds of JUGs worldwide. A Java Developer since the earliest days of the technology, Bruno took part in some of the largest Java projects in Brazil. Bruno is a Principal Consultant at Summa Technologies and has extensive experience in large projects in the Government, finance and service industries. A Cloud Expert at ToolsCloud, he promotes and develops cloud-based systems using Java. Nurturing developer communities is a personal passion, and Bruno worked actively with Java open source communities and projects. Bruno Souza is an Honorary Director of the Open Source Initiative (OSI), President of the innovation-focused Campus Party Institute, and Coordinator of Nuvem, the Cloud Computing Lab of LSI/USP. When not in front of a computer, Bruno enjoys time with his family in a little hideout near Sâo Paulo. An amateur in many things - photographer, puppeteer, father - he strives to excel in some of them.
