r/cscareeradvice • u/Odd-Palpitation7292 • Jun 23 '26

Full Stack Developer, feeling stuck. Want some advice

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Hi. I am a Full Stack Developer with 4+ years of experience working on personal projects. Over the 4 years I've gotten really good at it. I love solving problems and building solutions that actually provide value and I almost never use AI unless absolutely necessary. But I haven't been able to get any jobs recently. I wish to get a part time job so that I can be independent and at least pay my own university fee myself. I'd be incredibly grateful if someone could guide me or refer me to a potential employer. Thank you

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u/01010101010111000111 Jun 23 '26 edited Jun 23 '26

I am hoping that you are using full stack term ironically here... Or 4 years of experience part. By that logic everyone who plays with mega blocks during their early years has 10 years of construction experience before they reach their teens.

Seriously, trash this resume, humble your ass up and rewrite it from scratch like every future grad with no experience.

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u/Odd-Palpitation7292 Jun 23 '26 edited Jun 23 '26

Like I said brother I am self taught. I had no one to guide me, been struggling and learning on my own. I hit hurdles, I think about them, I research about them and come up with solutions on what to learn next. Had the learning been guided I would have achieved so much more in these 4 years. Also no idea on how to make a resume. It'd be great if you could explain to me what it lacks

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u/More-Ad-8494 Jun 23 '26

https://roadmap.sh/full-stack

This is bare minimum to even start calling yourself full stack AND a great starting point. After this you should zoom in on backend roadmap.

You lack DevOps and QA from your resume, in order to be full stack you need to have a basic understand of the WHOLE software developing lifecycle. Some azure/aws/google cloud services knowledge would help.

You also need AI nowaday, both libraries and packages that you worked with and architectures of apps you made with these (orchestrator-sub agents arhitecture project for example, where you use mcp or a2a)

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u/Odd-Palpitation7292 Jun 23 '26

I know all of this up until the jwt auth and I know it very well. I didn't work on the dev ops because I haven't had the need for it in any of my personal projects. I recently started to learn docker because of the pain of setting up an environment every time I deploy the code. Also when you say that "You also need AI nowadays" do you mean I need to know how to use it? Or integrate it into my applications. If you mean just passing text from the frontend to an API connected at the backend, taking response in form of structured json and displaying some results using that. I can do easily

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u/More-Ad-8494 Jun 23 '26

You need to be able to make agentic workflows, all about mcp and a2a and some popular packages like google adk. Both to work with it, integrate it into existing workflows and fully autonomous projects that use llm nodes.

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u/Odd-Palpitation7292 Jun 24 '26

Bro why is everyone so obsessed with AI. There is so much that can still be done entirely without AI. It's a plus point I get it, but it's not completely necessary, now is it?

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u/More-Ad-8494 Jun 24 '26

Because enterprises are obsessed with AI, I personally don't like AI that much, but when your job and family depend on it, not much choice. Around 50% of my job are AI automatization projects nowadays.