What Really Makes You A “Professional” Software Engineer

Years of experience? A degree? Or something else entirely?

Matt Croak Code
Level Up Coding
Published in
8 min readJul 14, 2022

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I wrote a post on Quora a little while ago in response to a few users saying that you aren’t really a “professional” software engineer unless you meet their criteria. I decided to expand upon that post, and write this one, not because I need to or because most people…

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