🎯 Strategize Your Career

Proven tools and strategies to grow your career, boost your salary, and stand out as a high-impact engineer

— Written by Fran Soto, Software Engineer at Amazon.

👋 Why I Started This

At some point, my weekly 1:1s with my manager weren’t enough to explore everything I wanted to talk about: growing my career, learning faster, and and becoming the most productive engineer.

So I started writing.

Strategize Your Career is where I share everything I’ve learned (and keep learning) about building a high-impact, high-autonomy software engineering career.

💡 What You'll Get

Every week, I share a concise, practical post to help you:

• 💵 Increase your salary by growing in scope and leveling up

• 🕒 Save time with repeatable systems and mental models

• 🚀 Learn faster through curated content and structured learning tracks

If you’re an engineer who wants to be more intentional about your career, this newsletter is for you.

🔒 Premium Subscriber Benefits

For those who want to go deeper, premium subscribers get access to:

🛠️ Templates & Tools (9+ and growing!)

• 9+ high-impact templates (and counting), designed to help you streamline your career growth, interview prep, and technical documentation.

📚 Learning Tracks

• 8+ structured learning tracks to help you grow deliberately in key areas of your career

📝 Exclusive Content

• Access to 80+ archive posts written over 18+ months

• At least 1 premium-only post per month with deep dives and advanced strategies

💬 What People Are Saying

I LOVE Strategize Your Career. Fran makes it clear what you'll learn then concisely gives it to you. Tons of personal stories and insights too. Top quality 👌

— Jordan Cutler, Senior Software Engineer at Pinterest

“Fran's weekly posts are always actionable and can help you propel your software engineering career forward. I highly recommend subscribing to his newsletter”

— Akash Mukherjee, Tech Lead at Apple and Google, Packt book author

“Fran offers clear insights into improving yourself as a software engineer. Absolutely recommend for any engineers to develop their communication skills.”

— Alex Nguyen, Software Engineer at Google

“An easy-to-read newsletter packed with many actionable tips on software engineering and career growth!"

— Petar Ivanov, Software Engineer at Payhawk

Wherever you're in your career, Fran's advices are helpful to software engineers at every level. Clearly written articles, getting across ton of value

— Akos Komuves, Principal Software Engineer at ABBYY

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Many subscribers use their Learning & Development budget to pay for the annual plan.

Go ahead and ask your manager to reinburse with the template below

Hey {manager},

Hope you're doing well!

I wanted to ask if it would be possible to expense a subscription to a software engineering newsletter as part of my Learning & Development budget.

The newsletter is called Strategize Your Career, and it focuses on topics like growing in the role, becoming more productive, learning faster, and improving technical communication. It also covers leadership and mentorship.

The annual subscription is €120. I think it would be really valuable for my growth and development, especially in areas that directly support our work and team goals.

Would it be okay to reimburse this?

Thanks,
{Your Name}