Be visibly competent.
If you have skills but others do not know about them, you will never get the opportunities you deserve. Make your abilities visible, and ensure that what you bring to the table is impossible to ignore.
Principal Engineer II at Razorpay - building Agent Studio, Ex-staff engg at GCP Memorystore & Dataproc, Creator of DiceDB, ex-Amazon Fast Data, ex-Director of Engg. SRE and Data Engineering at Unacademy. I spark engineering curiosity through my no-fluff engineering videos on YouTube and my courses