You’ve got the college degree, or you finished the coding bootcamp, and you’re ready for your first job as a software engineer.
Now what?
When I got out of college, I felt ready for the world, but also knew that I had to keep growing.
To advance in this field and enjoy it, I had to keep learning, and did.
While I went full speed ahead on technical topics, there was much more that I needed to learn.
Over my career, I have learned that it’s not technical knowledge or lack thereof that will determine whether or not you advance and enjoy your career.
All the technical knowledge in the world will only take you so far, plus accumulating and applying it is the easy part.
I developed a wide range of software – close to the hardware and far removed from it – before my career really took off, but you don’t have to wait as long as I did.
Not only that, but there are even more options for your career than there were when I first entered the field.
I am here to help you understand this and subsequently chart a course for the career you want in a field with unlimited possibilities – hence, The Unlimited Engineer.
Software is every where now.
You don’t have to look far – it’s no longer only on PCs. It’s on your phone, in much of your car, in your doctor’s office and on your favorite retail store’s web site or app.
In the age of AI, it’s behind powerful new tools at every turn.
It is evolving, but the fundamentals have never mattered more, and as a result, this career is not going away.
Phil Kasiecki is a versatile software engineering leader and technology industry champion.
He has developed a wide variety of software, but is most at home in embedded systems.
Along the way, he has come to see that software engineering holds unlimited possibilities for anyone wanting a career in it.
The keys to experiencing those possibilities all lie not in the technical aspects of your career, but rather, the non-technical ones.
Besides his work as a software engineering manager, he works to leave the industry better than he found it through much service aided by building many relationships as an active connector as well as helping people build great careers in it.
He is a Founding Strategic Advisor to the Future of Work Advisory Council with Amplify Allyship/Allyship Enterprises LLC, serves on two committees of the NH Tech Alliance, has served as a mentor with an MIT course and the Hack.Diversity program, and was on the Advisory Council of the Impact Innovation Foundation. He also routinely gives talks to high school students about careers in the field and has received the Gold Badge from VLACS Professional Partners.
In these talks, he speaks of the many possibilities a career in software has – hence, The Unlimited Engineer.