> tech support job 20 years ago to I.T., SysAdmin, DevOps/SRE, and now a SWE II. I am on track to be promoted a "Senior SWE" in the next 3-6 months. This progr

> tech support job 20 years ago to I.T., SysAdmin, DevOps/SRE, and now a SWE II. I am on track to be promoted a "Senior SWE" in the next 3-6 months. This progression is pretty impressive! Congrats on getting where you are! Going forward, do you want to continue on a technical path or you could be interested in software management, product management, etc.? If the technical path sounds more interesting for now, are there any areas that you wish to explore? Is there some software expertise you'd be interested to develop? (could be AI, real time graphics, cloud architecture, databases, etc.). The people I know who are far in their career have clear expertise areas and spend a lot of time communicating about it both internally (mostly by mentoring juniors) and externally (by giving talks and contributing to open source). Also, you can try asking here for more input: https://www.reddit.com/r/cscareerquestions/ https://www.reddit.com/r/cscareerquestions/