Lessons from a Google Engineer: How to become a Senior Software Engineer

**[Sandile Kwesa](https://www.linkedin.com/in/skeswa/)**[ ](https://www.linkedin.com/in/skeswa/)is a frontend-leaning software engineer with a whimsical sense of humor and a penchant for puzzles. He loves to hack on consumer-facing side projects that augment the human experience. He build webapps with React.js or Angular.js in frontend, and Node.js or Go in the backend. He’s worked with MySQL, PostgreSQL & MongoDB in the database layer

**Path to Software Seniority: Proven Strategies for becoming a Senior Software Engineer**
To take full responsibility for a software development process, you need to have a holistic understanding of how it all comes together. You must understand the mechanisms behind the environment, the system architecture, data structure and algorithms, and other elements that transform business ideas into a working software product. We’ll cover the mindset and skills you need to make the jump.

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