How to move from pre-sales engineering into an architecture role without taking a step backward.
Pre-sales teaches you to understand customers, translate business problems into technical ones, and communicate across disciplines. Those skills are foundational for architecture.
Customer empathy transfers. Speed of understanding transfers. Imposter syndrome also transfers—but it's unfounded. You know how to learn quickly. Architecture is just learning on a larger scale.
We walked through three engineer stories: one who moved too fast and burned out, one who moved too slow and got left behind, and one who got the pace right.
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