Harley Ferguson

6 WAYS TO GET
MORE
RECOGNITION AS
A DEVELOPER
Be amazing 01

This is an obvious one but it needs to be

mentioned.

By writing quality code, being great to work with

as well as being highly knowledgeable, you're
going to make it far easier to be noticed as a
quality developer.
Start a blog 02

Be it your own personal website, a Medium

profile or a dev.to page, a mechanism to write
down your findings or explain your opinions is a
great tool for getting some recognition.

Blog posts are so powerful because they are

relatively low effort, are easily shareable and help
build a visual portfolio of your knowledge base.
Conduct a tech 03

talk with your

team
If you're able to get past the anxiety of public
speaking, you're going to find yourself in the top
percentile of developers.

What does this mean? It means you're going to stand

out.

Build a deck using a tool like Canva, make notes on

some high level points to say and then practice in
front of a mirror.
 Find a niche 04
and go deep

It's not always easy to find something to specialize in or

become known for, but there are so many aspects to
software development that there will surely be something
that you can pick up and make your own.

Be it YAML pipeline, server-side rendering or efficient

recursive functions, pick something and become the most
knowledge person about that topic. This will help create a
dependency on you which organically provides you with a
mechanism to prove your knowledge, value and worth.
Share your 05

thoughts publicly
I believe in sharing your opinions in public in a
healthy manner.

Take topics that you know well, write them down

and start identifying potential pieces of nuggets
that you could publicly share that will provide
value to others.

Investigate copywriting and content curation to

help you hone your ability to take your
knowledge and make it easily digestible to others.
Contribute to 06

open-source
Building your own projects on GitHub is great, but
it's far more impressive if you can find an open-
source project to contribute to. Even if it's just a
couple of lines of code.

Being able to say "I contributed" to something

that's being used by millions of people is super
powerful in the game of turning heads and
validating your abilities.
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