My goals for 2025

Namito YokotaNamito Yokota
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Below is the result of a collaboration between my team lead and myself, on how to grow as a software engineer in 2025.

Team work

The following highlights essential practices for building effective teamwork and collaboration.

  • Create healthy conflict.

    • Azure DevOps comments per pull request review metric.

    • Jira comments per story.

  • Promote innovation.

    • Contribute to lunch & learn opportunities.

    • Bi-weekly professional develompent time.

  • Mentorship.

    • Meet with full-stack developer bi-weekly to teach frontend topics.

    • Meet with QA engineer bi-weekly to teach TypeScript and web concepts.

  • Provide substantial feedback to the broader organization.

    • Push accessibility across all products.

    • Set automated frontend coding standard checks.

  • Drive collaboration to decision making.

    • Leads design/architecture discussions.

    • Effectively create design diagrams: Excalidraw, markmap.

    • Hold and lead brainstorming sessions using the silent meeting approach.

    • Learn to create accurate and detailed sequence diagrams.

  • Actively look for and address tech debt.

    • Jira metrics on tech debt stories created.

    • Jira metrics on tech debt stories completed.

  • Become exceptional at problem diagnostics.

    • Debug distributed systems.

    • Automatically detect perform degradation.

    • Altering pipeline library/steps.

  • Evangelize.

Learning

In order to grow as a full-stack developer, learning new technologies and gaining deeper understanding of technologies that I currently use will be key.

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