What it takes to become a software architect

Alan Tai
10 min readJul 18, 2022
Ho Chi Minh city, Zuhlke’s 3rd office location in Asia

I had many conversations with software engineers in various domains and disciplines during the past 20 years of my career as a software engineer and software architect. Some of them were senior engineers having 8 or 10 years of experience. Many of them were early in their career having 3 to 5 years of experience. Some of them were my colleagues. Some were job candidates. At some point, they all ended up with the…

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