Dan Shaw - Godfather of Node.js

Junior to Senior with David Guttman

Featuring Dan Shaw, The Godfather of Node.js and Co-Founder of COR.

Talking Points:

• Qualities of a Senior Developer
• Important Team Traits
• Empathy before Technical Skills
• Benefits of both Freelance and Teamwork
• Learning from failure

Quotable Quotes:

• “The most remarkable thing about a senior developer is the level of focus they have.” - DS
• “Seeing a mid-tier developer level-up because they’re surrounded by experts was incredible.” - DS
• “In Node.js’ case, the limiting factor is language proficiency, not Junior or Senior.” - DS
• “When you are building a team, you need a mix of specialists and generalists to really fill things out.” - DS
• “A senior developer is an individual in your organization that is able not only deliver their own work but also make other people’s work better.” - DS
• “The hardest part as an expert is knowing something that you don’t know.” - DS
• “Having the humility to admit when you don’t know and seek out help when you aren’t able to satisfy the needs of the team constitutes a healthy team to me.” - DS
• “You can train technical skill, but training empathetic skill … comes through life’s pain.” - DS
• “Try to find folks that have a good baseline that are willing to learn, and build on that. The rest of the technical skills? That’s really time under fire and the opportunity to make enough mistakes.” - DS
• “So much of what really gets you to solving a problem is understanding the problem.” - DS

Notes:
COR
cor.dev
dshaw’s email
[e-mail]
Junior-to-Senior Community
community.juniortosenior.io