Depth in the .NET services you own, breadth into how they're observed in production.
A lot of .NET codebases are carrying more legacy debt and more silent EF Core inefficiency than anyone's measured. The developers who get promoted are the ones who pick one piece of that debt, fix it with numbers to show for it, and pair it with enough observability skill to catch the next one before it pages someone at 2am.
Generate your own .NET Developer roadmap →2 depth goals to deepen your craft, 1 breadth goal to expand your impact — the same shape the generator above produces, personalized to your actual responsibilities.
Every quarter a service stays on .NET Framework, the migration gets riskier and the security patches get thinner. Actually completing one migration — not just planning it — is a concrete, resume-worthy win.
Migrate one production service off .NET Framework to .NET 8 with equal or better throughput, verified by load test.
N+1 queries are the most common EF Core performance bug in production, and they're invisible until someone actually profiles the SQL. Fixing them on your busiest endpoints is a fast, measurable win.
Find and fix N+1 patterns on the 3 slowest endpoints, cutting average DB round-trips per request by 70%.
Most .NET teams debug production issues with log-grepping alone. Adding real tracing to even one service changes how fast you can diagnose the next incident — and it's a skill that transfers to every service after it.
Instrument one service with OpenTelemetry traces and use them to diagnose one real production latency issue.
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