u/michaelnovati replied ·
Focus on getting promoted one level at a time.
Have weekly 1-1 meetings with your manager. Tell them you want to get promoted to the next level as your goal and ask what areas you need to improve in to be there.
Then work through those areas and every week ask how it's going.
When you feel you have hit all the areas, you should be an easy promotion for the manager.
Then you start working at the next level.
Note that all this has nothing to do with any specific technologies. It's about playing the game of what your company needs and defines at different levels. Which sounds kind of robotic but it's a systematic way of getting promoted and controlling your destiny.