Career Blueprint
Junior Developer→Senior Frontend Engineer
⏱ 24 months•4 years experience•3 current skills
🧱Phase 1
Foundation
9 months
Skills to Develop
Advanced TypeScript & type-level programmingReact performance patterns (memo, Suspense, transitions)Core Web Vitals optimizationAccessibility (WCAG 2.1 AA)Browser DevTools mastery
Resources
- 🎓 Total TypeScript by Matt Pocock
- 🔨 web.dev Performance guides practice
- 🎓 Deque University Accessibility
- 🔨 Testing Library + Playwright E2E setup
🏁 Milestone
Build and deploy a React app with 90+ Lighthouse score and WCAG 2.1 AA compliance
⚡Phase 2
Execution
9 months
Skills to Develop
Design system architectureMicro-frontend patternsState management at scale (Zustand, Jotai)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
Ship a production micro-frontend system with automated CI/CD pipeline and design system
👑Phase 3
Authority
6 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 local JavaScript meetup
- 📚 Staff Engineer by Will Larson
- 🔨 Lead an architecture review for cross-team project
🏁 Milestone
Complete 3 successful technical RFCs and mentor 2 junior developers to promotion
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