How being a part of a community can change your career

“I didn’t go to IT to work with people!” is something that I have heard from colleagues time and time again when I was in university and later on a junior developer. From the perspective of time, I think this was a statement that led a lot of them to trouble instead of growth within the career they chose. As software developers, engineers, architects can we really afford to work in isolation? Is it possible to grow in such a case?

“I didn’t go to IT to work with people!” is something that I have heard from colleagues time and time again when I was in university and later on a junior developer. From the perspective of time, I think this was a statement that led a lot of them to trouble instead of growth within the career they chose. As software developers, engineers, architects can we really afford to work in isolation? Is it possible to grow in such a case?

If I look at my work right now, especially from the perspective of Integration Architecture - my work is dependent on so many people, so that already invalidates the statement, but to truly grow, it requires something different - a community of peers that can put what you do every day into perspective!

In this episode of Loosely Coupled we’re joined by Vinicius Albano, a Software Architect, AI Systems Engineer. Vinicius is also the founder of DDD Brazil, a rising community of interdisciplinary specialists sharing their experiences and making them a practical learning - not just theory, but a means to align business and engineering, especially in the age of AI.

Together we’ll explore the various aspects of creating and contributing to an IT community and dive into:

The importance of a community for your career growth,

How communities support learning and change your approach to various aspects of technology, architecture and collaboration,

The hurdles of starting a community and what does that really mean,