For the past year, I’ve been struggling with understanding where I stand as a professional and where I want to head.

In my previous jobs I'd learn new things naturally by just accepting any challenges that I'd come across. That is absolutely great and a working strategy when you are just starting your career.

Now I feel like the opportunities are infinite and I'd like to do some intentional planning and studying as I'm working towards my goal of broadening my technical expertise.

I spent some time making an inventory of my skills and experience. I came across this roadmap tool that helped me visualize my experience in a new way. https://roadmap.sh/roadmaps

It highlighted the things I've forgotten I once worked with and the things I'm kinda battling with, the things I'd like to learn some day and I think I now know what I should focus on in the near future.

They seem pretty accurate and up-to-date. There is a large community behind the project. For each item in the roadmap there is a list of recommended resources where anyone can contribute.

The tool is free, be sure to check it out. They've got roadmaps for all kinds of engineering roles as well as for QA, DevOps, UX Designers, and since most recently for Prompt Engineers. Pretty cool, huh?