Your experience is certainly invited :) I think your experience is really interesting, because as a dev our work can be hard to measure, unless you're working

Your experience is certainly invited :) I think your experience is really interesting, because as a dev our work can be hard to measure, unless you're working on something huge and very visible, so this interpersonal part of the work becomes very important, kinda like your manager said, you have to be remembered for something more than just "that guy we pay to make code".