Mentoring
For IT specialists who want a better career and income, from someone who grew from junior to tech lead and worked as an employee, freelancer and contractor.
Formats
Bring me a question like these:
- Switch to another IT specialisation: the differences and what to choose.
- Build a personal roadmap for your growth.
- What affects your salary or rate, and how to ask for a raise.
- Work on two projects at once: the nuances, pros and cons.
- Find direct work with foreign clients: where to look and what helps.
- Build a component library shared across projects.
- Migrate a legacy project to new technologies.
- Build the frontend in parallel while the API is not ready yet.
- Set up AI coding tools such as Claude Code and Cursor in your daily work.
- Write your own skills, sub-agents and hooks.
- Build an AI workflow from ticket to reviewed merge request.
Five steps, each with its own goal:
- Introduction · 30 min. Who you are, where you work and what experience you have.
- Technical interview · 1.5 h. Your theory checked against a competency matrix for each level: junior, middle, senior and tech lead.
- Logic tasks, self-paced · 2 h. How you reason and think critically.
- Test task, self-paced · 4 h. Your knowledge and experience in practice.
- Code review and feedback · 1.5 h. A review of your test task, a final assessment of your level and what to do next.
Come with one of these goals:
- Grow to the next level. You want to grow from junior to middle or from middle to senior. I assess your knowledge and experience and help you build a roadmap to the next level. On weekly calls I support you on the way: we work through blockers and I give advice.
- Raise your salary or rate. You earn, say, $2,000 a month and want more. I assess your knowledge and experience, suggest a salary or rate and prepare you for the talk with your manager or client. On weekly calls I help with the plan, blockers and questions.
- Work for a direct client as a contractor. You want to work directly for a client and earn more. On weekly calls I share the tools and tips that help you find a client faster: how to talk to clients, what terms to agree on, how to set your rate and how to organise the work.
What people say
I had a session assessing my seniority as a frontend developer. I really liked that Dmytro covered every area of frontend. He told me what I know well, what to improve, and even what to work on in the long run.
That's great! I really liked that the feedback was structured and written down. After the session Dmytro also shared some useful links I'll need.
The mentor knows the topic of the session very well. Dmytro didn't just answer my questions, he shared details and nuances from his own experience. I didn't expect that, and it's very useful: I can apply it and save time.
I really liked that Dmytro not only knows modern web development well but also runs this kind of session skillfully. In one hour we covered many important questions.
The session went great! The mentor gave good advice on growing both hard and soft skills, we made a list of problem areas in how the project is run, and talked through possible growth paths. Recommended!
Overall I'm very satisfied. Dmytro understood the problem I was facing and led me to the right questions to ask myself, which is what I actually needed.