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Ricardo Otano

Hello! I think you were saying I don't exist, hahaha!

My credentials: 10 years of experience, I started with plain PHP 5.4 + SQL, and a little bit of JavaScript. In two years I learnt AngularJS (V1) and Laravel. Since then I fully qualify as full stack developer, I don't feel my knowledge in front or back is behind those who specialize.

In my company of 23 employees only two of us are full stack. We can have a single page application (Vue or Angular) + backoffice + working api (Laravel) with a database, in no more than a week. We also configure servers to work in, but that part got really complicated since Docker+Kubernetes and we prefer to let it do to a DevOps.

We do a lot of MVP and also accelerate tickets that are much harder to solve when backend doesn't know about frontend and vice-versa (from days to hours).

Our only missing part are CSS/SVG animations or visual effects.

Maybe one of the reasons why people think we do not exist is also because we use to end up as Team Leaders/Tech Leaders/WhateverBuzzword Leader as we know what every stack needs.

Cheers :)