[xenocratus]

Thank you for the tip! I'll try and do something along those lines.

The problem is time, unfortunately - especially when developing products, the timelines are quite restricting: tickets are estimated by the team, large deviations usually need to be explained. So if there's something I can do in a sensible amount of time, I'd go for it. Plus all the overhead of helping others, reviewing/merging PRs etc.etc.

One of my main approaches to try and prove myself was to help out with identifying/fixing company-wide issues in some of our platforms. Got me some good contacts (and a very senior engineer offering to mentor me for a bit) and I certainly learned a lot doing it.