How to become Senior .NET Developer

Nguyen Thanh TungDeputy Technology Director - MISA

About me

• Nguyen Thanh Tung

• Deputy Technology Director at MISA JSC

• Microsoft MVP 2017

• Founder .NET Open Group Community:

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• Blog at: http://tungnt.net

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Agenda• What is senior dev?• Senior dev knowledge & skill• Learning experiences• 2017 recommendation for .NET dev• Q&A

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What is senior developer?

There is no commonly accepted definition of "senior developer"

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Senior Dev Symptoms• 3-5 years experiences• Proficient programming language/framework & tool:

– C#/Visual Studio/TFS…• Capable of designing and implementing complex

module/app• Can work without constant supervision• Capable of mentor junior developers• Keep up-to-date with the new

technologies/frameworks/tools

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Senior dev path• Web developer• App developer• Mobile developer• DevOps • …Choose 1 path and stick to it

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Senior Dev Knowledge & Skill• Basic knowledge– OOP– Network– OS–…

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Senior Dev Knowledge & Skill• Master your programming

language/framework– C#– Internal .NET–MVC/WebAPI–…

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Senior Dev Knowledge & Skill• Master IDE: Visual Studio– Advantage debug– Profile/Reflection tool

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Senior Dev Knowledge & Skill• Master SQL and/or NoSQL• Knowledge about SQL Tuning

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Senior Dev Knowledge & Skill• Master ALM (Application Lifecycle

Management)– Team Foundation Server

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Senior Dev Knowledge & Skill• Knowledge about– TDD&Unit Test– CI/CD– Refactor code– Clean Code: SOLID

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Senior Dev Knowledge & Skill• Applicable architecture– nTier– MVC/MVVM/MVP…

• Knowledge about: – Microservice– CQRS-ES– DDD

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Code code code

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Learning experiences

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Learning experiences • Update technology

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Learning experiences • Update technology

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Learning experiences • Update technology: Join, speak at

community:– .NET Open Group– Docker Ha Noi– VietOpenStack– ITEC

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Technologies 2017 Roadmap

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Technologies 2017 Roadmap

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Technologies 2017 Roadmap

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Book References

Q&A