I was never mentored by any super great engineers. Worked with some brights ones, but never got formally taught by them.
The way I excelled from beginner to a higher level engineer was self learning, curiosity, building things so I could understand them. Example: when learning dependency injection, I found a tutorial on how to build your own DI container. So i built one and saw how it worked internally. That was SUPER useful.
I recommend Podcasts, YouTube Videos, Courses, Conferences, Participating in Open Source (even writing docs that are missing is helpful). Ultimately its about using what you learn and always being curious, learning patterns, and what is useful vs what is not.
The way I excelled from beginner to a higher level engineer was self learning, curiosity, building things so I could understand them. Example: when learning dependency injection, I found a tutorial on how to build your own DI container. So i built one and saw how it worked internally. That was SUPER useful.
I recommend Podcasts, YouTube Videos, Courses, Conferences, Participating in Open Source (even writing docs that are missing is helpful). Ultimately its about using what you learn and always being curious, learning patterns, and what is useful vs what is not.