Here's how you can build credibility and trust in your professional network as an application developer.

Consistency: Regularly contribute to blogs, forums, or open-source projects. Consistency helps in maintaining visibility and reinforces your commitment to the community. Engagement: Actively engage with your audience. Respond to comments, participate in discussions, and provide feedback. Quality Content; Transparency; Networking; Mentorship;

Knowledge management initiatives are encouraged in big organization to ensure any innovative ideas are stored in a common repository easily accessible to any from within the organization. This will expedite the process of sharing knowledge seamlessly across diverse groups. At the completion of a project, key lessons learned reusable frameworks invented etc can go to this repository accelerating GTM in similar projects.

Someone share information with me because I'm not an application engineer - proof that LinkedIn's algorithm is seriously broken. But to grow competence and confidence in any field, yeah, you should absolutely get involved in forums to both share your experiences and more importantly, listen to others.

Thoroughly self reviewing your artifacts to ensure the quality gates are being met. Plugging in these validation rules to your CI CD pipelines is a great way for operational effectiveness. Peer programming and peer reviewing helps uncover bugs early adding a human touch. Quality starts from requirements and moves into all the stages. Getting the requirements right is the key.

I would encourage the below - Getting your work reviewed regularly - Actively addressing the review comments that are applicable - Get a quality audit done biweekly for your projects and implement corrective actions - Participate in an initiative such as Six Sigma or CMMI to gain more awareness of quality standards - Get your work validated through Project Review Boards and Architecture review board and address relevant comments.

Reviewing different modern architectural models and finding a proper fit ensures you are current. This is a continuous activity as the frameworks and architectures evolve with time. Solid understanding in ground level concepts is a base to progressively understand modern frameworks and adapt to them as per need.

I would also encourage the below - Building reusable assets and accelerators within the organization to achieve a faster GTM - Contribution to new project proposals, ideations and innovation - Contributions to Intellectual Property - Getting valued recommendations from experts in the industry in your profile