Do you feel it’s no longer enough to just be a great developer? Does advancing your career mean you have to be blogging, speaking at conferences, engaging on social media, committing to open source and other things distracting you from actually building software?

You’ll do well to ensure that the people making decisions about your career are hearing and seeing your name and associating it with progress and other cool and positive things (and truth, they probably aren’t looking at your code).

In this session we’ll explore some of the best practices that assist in not having to do it all from scratch. Knowing what you are doing can give you an easier path to visible contributions to the community.

Sam has spent the past 10 years in London becoming a well-known face of the developer community scene. Working with a variety of organisations within London and now globally building some of the