I began my engineering career 10 years after I started college. I had failed early and taken a detour while others were going right from college into their new tech jobs. I had a 6-month-old child, a stay-at-home wife working hard to raise him, and a ton of debt to pay down. I used to tell my mentees at ECPI, “When you get hungry enough, you’ll eat.” I was hungry. I needed growth in a hurry. Fast forward to now: the amount I paid in taxes last year was more than my annual salary at my first developer position in 2009. Here's how I did it: Learn by doing (LBD). Manufacture Opportunity. Punch Above Your Weight. Outpace Innovation. Growing Your Connections. Consistent Branding. Plan Your Growth. Pay It Forward. "You cannot manufacture serendipity but you can increase the chances of encountering it." - Ryan Hoover, Founder of Product Hunt

1. 10x YOUR
TECH CAREERDaniel Burke • Handshake

3. ● Software Engineer @
● Previously at , helping
architect & implement Real-time
Messaging in their iOS apps
Daniel Burke

4. Democratizing Opportunity

5. Opportunity
MANUFACTURE
1.

6. a set of
circumstances that
makes it possible to
do something.
MANUFACTURE OPPORTUNITY

7. Learn By Doing
MANUFACTURE OPPORTUNITY

8. MANUFACTURE OPPORTUNITY
Learn By Doing

9. MANUFACTURE OPPORTUNITY
Gamble With Your Time
Hustle
Risk
Effort

10. d2burke: online
MANUFACTURE OPPORTUNITY

11. MANUFACTURE OPPORTUNITY
Gamble With Your Time

12. Story Time!
MANUFACTURE OPPORTUNITY

13. MANUFACTURE OPPORTUNITY
Introduce New
Technology
Create Working
Demos
Create A Space To
Innovate
Out-pace Innovation

14. MANUFACTURE OPPORTUNITY
Story Time!w/ @nickcald

15. “I didn’t sit around
waiting for the
opportunity,
I got out and found it.”

16. MANUFACTURE OPPORTUNITY
Find A Place To
Innovate
Out-pace Innovation

17. MANUFACTURE OPPORTUNITY
Merline Saintil - Intuit

18. MANUFACTURE OPPORTUNITY
“I’m not being offered
a raise, should I ask
or leave?”
...someone in the crowd asked:

19. MANUFACTURE OPPORTUNITY
“Leave.”

20. Planning
GROWTH
2.

21. GROWTH PLANNING
Set Your Career Path
What’s Your Next
Position?

22. GROWTH PLANNING
Growing Connections

23. GROWTH PLANNING
Set Your Career Path
What’s Your Next
Position?
Growth Isn’t Always
Hierarchical

24. GROWTH PLANNING
Consistent Branding
Keep your online information
& resume current

25. GROWTH PLANNING
Consistent Branding
Keep your online information
& resume current
Share your expertise
with blog posts

26. GROWTH PLANNING
Consistent Branding
Keep your online information
& resume current
Share your expertise
with blog posts
Take on panel opportunities
& speaking engagements

27. GROWTH PLANNING
Set Your Career Path
What’s Your Next
Position?
Growth Isn’t Always
Hierarchical
What Do You
Want In The End?

28. Control Your Growth
GROWTH PLANNING

29. GROWTH PLANNING
Pay It Forward

30. GROWTH PLANNING
Pay It Forward

31. GROWTH PLANNING

32. ● Software Engineer @
● @d2burke (.com, twitter, linkedin)
Daniel Burke