4 things I learned from becoming a lead developer in my first year as a self-taught professional programmer

Sami Hamed
7 min readMar 30, 2019

This essay goes out to all those who decided to jump on the developer bandwagon a little later than most of their peers. Maybe you’ve just created your first `index.html` file and are interested in what professional software development looks like. Maybe you’ve just landed your first job in web development. Maybe you even have a few years of experience and are now considering moving to a more senior role in your company. Here I humbly share some things I learned while…

Sami Hamed

Engineering Manager & Product Engineer with a background in Social Anthropology