This document provides career advice from Johnny, a retired Kotlin software architect. In 3 sentences: Johnny advocates becoming a professional without needing anyone's permission; focusing on helping customers and peers succeed to advance your own career; and not worrying about titles but rather validating your skills against the industry to measure your true seniority and freedom.

1. BEYOND SOFTWARE
CRAFTSMANSHIP
JOHNNY'S ROAD TO REMARKABLE CAREER
Eduards Sizovs
@eduardsi

2. JOHNNY

3. MILTON

6. LAWRENCE
RETIRED KOTLIN SOFTWARE ARCHITECT

7. I KNOW TDD, BDD, DDD AND HOW TO RE-
FACTOR GOVNO-KOD ON A DAILY BASIS. I
KNOW A PLENTY OF COOL FRAMEWORKS LIKE
SPOCK AND SPARK, AS WELL AS MACHINE
LEARNING AND UNIKERNELS.

9. DDD – RUSSIAN: DAVAI-DAVAI DEPLOY

12. YOU DON'T NEED ANYONE'S
PERMISSION TO BE PROF SIONAL.

13. $ $ $ $ $ $ $
↓ CUSTOMERS
↓ TOP MANAGEMENT
↓ MILTON
JOHNNY

14. LET CUSTOMER JUDGE

15. SPEAK CUSTOMER LANGUAGE

16. DON'T BE JERK

21. MILTON, IS JOHNNY HAPPY?

22. CBI.
CORPORATE BULLSH%T IMMUNITY.

26. KATTY
JOHNNY'S GF, QA ENGIENER

31. YOU SUCCEED FASTER BY HELPING
PEOPLE AROUND SUCCEED.

32. HELP PEERS ACHIEVE THEIR CAREER
ASPIRATIONS

33. WHEN YOU SUCCEED, IT IS TEAM'S
SUCC S.
WHEN YOU FAIL - IT'S YOUR FAILURE.

35. CHIEF ARCHITECT??? REALLY??

36. ♥

39. IT DO N’T MATTER HOW “SENIOR”
IN THE COMPANY YOU ARE.
IT'S A LOCAL MEASURE.

40. VALIDATE YOUR SENIORITY AGAINST
THE R T OF THE INDUSTRY.

41. THE ONLY MEASURE OF SENIORITY IS
YOUR FREEDOM.

43. THANK YOU
@eduardsi