About 🎓

Become a Senior Engineer, often shortened to BASE, is a free weekly newsletter for software engineers looking to level up to Senior++.

Our focus is to frame topics through the mindset of a Senior engineer, to help understand what differentiates higher level individual contributors and the impact they make on an organization.

If we’ve done our job well, each article will contain some form of actionable advice that you can apply immediately to begin demonstrating your Senior capabilities.

My Introduction

Aken Roberts

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January 9, 2024

Hey, I’m Aken 👋🏼 I’m the author of Become a Senior Engineer, a new educational and community endeavor. I’ve been been in professional software development for 20 years as a full-stack engineer. Here’s my story of getting started in software development and where it has taken me along the way!

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