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Career Growth

skill-jamestorrevillas-dev-skills-career-growth · by jamestorrevillas

Use this skill for career planning, goal setting, skill gap analysis, promotion preparation, or thinking through your growth as a developer. Trigger on keywords: career, growth, promotion, goals, career path, senior developer, level up, skills to learn, career plan, next steps.

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$ agentstack add skill-jamestorrevillas-dev-skills-career-growth

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No issues found. Passed automated security review. · v0.1.0 How review works →

  • Prompt-injection patterns
  • Secret / credential exfiltration
  • Dangerous shell & filesystem operations
  • Untrusted network calls
  • Known-malicious package signatures

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  • Network access No
  • Filesystem access No
  • Shell / process execution No
  • Environment & secrets No
  • Dynamic code execution No

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About

Career Growth

The Developer Growth Model

Technical skills alone don't drive career growth. The formula:

Impact = Technical Skill × Communication × Ownership × Visibility

All four multiply — zero in any one = zero impact perception.


Levels of Developer Maturity

| Level | Focus | What Distinguishes You | |---|---|---| | Junior | Task execution | Completes assigned work | | Mid | Feature ownership | Owns a feature end-to-end, asks fewer questions | | Senior | System thinking | Thinks about trade-offs, teaches others, improves the team | | Staff+ | Org impact | Shapes direction, multiplies other engineers |

To level up: Consistently operate at the level above your current one.


90-Day Growth Plan Template

GOAL: [specific capability or outcome in 90 days]

Month 1 — Foundation
- Learn: [specific skill/concept]
- Build: [small project or contribution]
- Measure: [how you'll know you've made progress]

Month 2 — Application
- Apply: [use the skill in real work]
- Teach: [explain it to someone else]
- Stretch: [attempt something harder]

Month 3 — Mastery
- Lead: [own something using this skill]
- Document: [write about what you learned]
- Review: [evaluate against original goal]

Skill Gap Analysis

Ask AI:

I'm a [current level] developer working with [stack].
I want to become a [target level/role].
What skill gaps do I likely have?
Prioritize by: (1) impact on current work, (2) career value.

Visibility Without Bragging

Growth requires visibility. Do this without self-promotion:

  • Write internal documentation others will use
  • Present your work in demos or team meetings
  • Write commit messages and PR descriptions that tell a story
  • Share what you learned from a bug in a team channel
  • Review others' code thoughtfully — your name appears in their PRs

The Mentoring Multiplier

Teaching accelerates your own learning by 2x:

  • Document your processes, not just your code
  • Offer to explain concepts to teammates
  • Write "what I learned" notes after completing complex tasks
  • Pair program intentionally

Long-Term Signals of Senior+ Performance

  • You reduce ambiguity for your team, not add to it
  • You make the people around you more effective
  • You anticipate problems before they happen
  • You make technical arguments with trade-offs, not just opinions
  • You deliver without being followed up on

Source & license

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Install and usage instructions live in the source repository linked above.

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Versions

  • v0.1.0 Imported from the upstream source.