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Senior-Level Engineering Skills

Python knowledge alone does not make a 5-year engineer: architecture reviews written as ADRs, technical documentation and debugging a live production incident, identifying and refactoring around technical debt (including untracked legacy debt), estimating and splitting large work, safe migrations and canary deployments with a real rollback path, mentoring, and communicating a trade-off as gain versus cost with an explicit recommendation.

Python overview
  1. Senior-Level Engineering SkillsThe practices that separate Python knowledge from being a 5-year engineer: reviewing an architecture before it is built, writing documentation and debugging a production incident with no debugger attached, recognizing and paying down technical debt (including the untracked, legacy kind), estimating and breaking down large work, migrating a system and its schema safely, deploying and rolling back without risking every user at once, mentoring, and communicating a trade-off in plain language with an actual recommendation.5 core7 standard12 concepts