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As a "regular" engineer, every time someone showed me a way to do things that I didn't know, or didn't think of myself, I dug deep to learn it, and to figure out how I could have come to that myself. I also relentlessly made sure I always took responsibility for things I involved myself in, from both business and technology side. I became a bit of a product owner in addition to an engineer.

And then I took a leap and asked my manager for a path there, and we worked together to make the title stuff happen.