Big Fish in a Small Pond or Small Fish in a Big Pond?

Brian Jenney
6 min readJan 8, 2024

A Developer Career Strategy

Like Finding Nemo — but for software developers 🤔

I’m going to break down the strategy that took me from an underpaid, mediocre developer to an engineering leader through a series of strategic job hops.

I love to code and help people reach their goals. I also like making money, gaining influence and status. You probably do too.

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Brian Jenney

full-stackish developer, late bloomer coder and power google user and owner of Parsity.io