One girl wanted to became a Drupal Dev. Guess what happened next... From Kate Marshalkina with love to Drupal Community https://www.drupal.org/u/kalabro

1. @kalabro Edition
Who is a Good Drupal Developer?

3. Hard / Soft skills
Junior Middle Senior
Can write code Nice guy

4. Hard skills
1. Toolset: Rules, Views, Panels, Commerce, ...
How: watch screencasts

5. Hard skills
1. Toolset: Rules, Views, Panels, Commerce, ...
How: watch screencasts
2. Drupal Core Concepts: Entities, Fields, Tokens, Routing, ...
How: read Drupal 7 Deconstructed

6. Hard skills
1. Toolset: Rules, Views, Panels, Commerce, ...
How: watch screencasts
2. Drupal Core Concepts: Entities, Fields, Tokens, Routing, ...
How: read Drupal 7 Deconstructed
3. Code quality
How: contribute to Drupal.org

7. Hard skills
1. Toolset: Rules, Views, Panels, Commerce, ...
How: watch screencasts
2. Drupal Core Concepts: Entities, Fields, Tokens, Routing, ...
How: read Drupal 7 Deconstructed
3. Code quality
How: contribute to Drupal.org
4. Dev-Ready Environment
How: git, IDE, Xdebug, command line

8. Hard skills
1. Toolset: Rules, Views, Panels, Commerce, ...
How: watch screencasts
2. Drupal Core Concepts: Entities, Fields, Tokens, Routing, ...
How: read Drupal 7 Deconstructed
3. Code quality
How: contribute to Drupal.org
4. Dev-Ready Environment
How: git, IDE, Xdebug, command line
5. Practise, Practise, Practise
How: side project, Stack Overflow, personal blog, sessions at tech events

9. Generalizing Specialist
Technical skills outside of Drupal scope:
- DevOps
- Performance
- Design / Frontend
- Third-parties
- Testing / CI
- Databases / Data Analysis
- Other frameworks

10. Nice Technically Brave Guy
💪
~3 years

11. What's next?
Personal grow / Market demand

12. Suddenly you've got what you wanted
and it wasn't what you expected
More authority to make decisions
More autonomy
Talk directly to the client
Manage people
Be the “main” person on the room
Money ¯_(ツ)_/¯

13. Suddenly you've got what you wanted
and it wasn't what you expected
Half a day you are writing (emails, documentation, tech
concepts).
Half a day you are listening and thinking.
Half a day you are answering and forwarding questions.
In the night, you are writing some code
In spare time, read a book about productivity ¯_(ツ)_/¯
More authority to make decisions
More autonomy
Talk directly to the client
Manage people
Be the “main” person on the room
Money ¯_(ツ)_/¯
— Nobody told me! (in fact they did)

14. Soft skills

15. The secret ingredient is...

16. ...and communication, management, planing, leadership, business acumen, ...

17. 1. Love tools that help you earn your bread
Bring some love to your code

18. 1. Love tools that help you earn your bread.
2. Love the community behind it
Bring some love to your code

19. 1. Love tools that help you earn your bread
2. Love the community behind it
3. Love the project you are working on
Bring some love to your code

20. 1. Love tools that help you earn your bread
2. Love the community behind it
3. Love the project you are working on
4. Love client's business
Bring some love to your code

21. 1. Love tools that help you earn your bread
2. Love the community behind it
3. Love the project you are working on
4. Love client's business
5. Love 💵 , yours and client's
Bring some love to your code

22. 1. Love tools that help you earn your bread
2. Love the community behind it
3. Love the project you are working on
4. Love client's business
5. Love 💵 , yours and client's
6. Love the team you are working with
Bring some love to your code

24. In spare time...
1. Programming: Love It or Leave It
http://blog.codinghorror.com/programming-love-it-or-leave-it/
2. Swiss Army Knife or Generalizing Specialist
http://blog.codinghorror.com/swiss-army-knife-or-generalizing-specialist/
3. Always Be Respondin'
http://mikecr.it/ramblings/always-be-respondin
4. Где ответственность, или кто такой Senior Software Engineer
http://dou.ua/lenta/articles/seniority/

25. Bring some love to your code

26. marshalkina@gmail.com / @kalabro
Almost Senior Drupal Developer