Career Blueprint
Credit Manager→Senior Frontend Engineer
⏱ 12 months•4 years experience•2 current skills
🧱Phase 1
Foundation
3 months
Skills to Develop
Advanced debugging techniquesAdvanced TypeScript & type-level programmingReact performance patterns (memo, Suspense, transitions)Core Web Vitals optimizationAccessibility (WCAG 2.1 AA)
Resources
- 🎓 Total TypeScript by Matt Pocock
- 🔨 web.dev Performance guides
- 🔨 Testing Library + Playwright E2E setup
- 🎓 Deque University (accessibility)
🏁 Milestone
Ship a performance audit that improves LCP by 30%+ on a production app
⚡Phase 2
Execution
5 months
Skills to Develop
Design system architectureMicro-frontend patternsState management at scale (Zustand, Jotai, or server state)CI/CD pipeline optimization for frontendMonorepo tooling (Turborepo, Nx)
Resources
- 🔨 Build a component library with Storybook + Chromatic
- 📚 Patterns.dev by Lydia Hallie & Addy Osmani
- 🔨 Contribute to a major open-source UI library
- 🎓 Frontend Masters — Enterprise Architecture
🏁 Milestone
Own and ship a design system or major frontend platform initiative used by 3+ teams
👑Phase 3
Authority
4 months
Skills to Develop
Technical RFC writingCross-team architecture decisionsPerformance budgeting & monitoring strategyMentoring junior & mid engineersInterviewing & hiring bar-raising
Resources
- 🔨 Write a technical blog series (3+ posts)
- 👥 Give a talk at a local meetup or conference
- 📚 Staff Engineer by Will Larson
- 🔨 Lead an architecture review for a cross-team project
🏁 Milestone
Recognized as the frontend authority — teams consult you on architecture decisions
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