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Hi, I'm a full stack developer, I can tick every box on that list, and I've been programming since I was 7, not 12 :). All this stuff can be mastered given enough time, effort and by choosing projects which broaden your technical horizons.

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Ah, I have committed the cardinal developer sin of self promotion and am being duly punished.

It's interesting that self promotion is so frowned upon in our community when failure to adequately promote ones self holds back so many careers. Why do we applaud those who promote their startups as "hustlers" but not those who advertise themselves?

By tick every box, do you mean every layer or every component?

Every layer, I don't think anyone is an expert in all of those components, but I've worked with about 80% of them.

Yeah, becoming an expert on one or two components per layer doesn't seem particularly hard, given a few years of experience. Except for a couple of layers, I'd consider myself well-versed (not an expert) in at least one component per layer, and I'm not a particularly studious person.

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