Mentoring Both Ways: Helping Others While Leveling Up Yourself! — Manivannan Selvaraj

Manivannan Selvaraj explores how mentoring others can help software engineers combat imposter syndrome and accelerate their own career growth.

[EuroPython 2025 — Terrace 2B on 2025-07-16] 🎤 *Mentoring Both Ways: Helping Others While Leveling Up Yourself! by Manivannan Selvaraj* 🔗 ep2025.europython.eu/session/mentoring-both-ways-helping-oth… 📝 Abstract: Last year at EuroPython, I gave a talk about leading with imposter syndrome, because let’s be honest, most of us feel like imposters when someone calls us “experts.” This year, I’m diving into something that helped me fight those feelings - mentoring both ways! In this talk, we’ll explore how mentoring isn’t just about helping others. It’s also a wonderful way to level up your own skills. Whether you’re guiding someone who thinks print() is magic or learning from someone who uses five monitors and dark mode, mentoring both ways will change how you grow in your journey. --- This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License: creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/