Career Blueprint

Manager→Senior Frontend Engineer

⏱ 7 months•8 years experience•1 current skills

🧱Phase 1

Foundation

2 months

Skills to Develop

Advanced TypeScript & type-level programmingReact performance patterns (memo, Suspense, transitions)Core Web Vitals optimizationAccessibility (WCAG 2.1 AA)CSS architecture (CSS Modules, Tailwind, CSS-in-JS trade-offs)

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

3 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

2 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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