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The honest retrospective on two weighted competency frameworks - the blank templates at their centre, the qualities no weight can hold, the situations where a weighted model is the wrong tool, and what I would build differently.
Most competency models fail the same way - everything matters equally, so nothing does. The case for a two-level weighting system, and a first look at the two mirrored frameworks this series unpacks.
Pick the one closest to the role. Each is two pages and carries the same facts.
Applied AI
Agentic AI & Cloud Engineer · multi-agent systems, RAG and MCP on AWS
Cloud & .NET
C#, .NET 10 and ASP.NET Core microservices on AWS and Azure · Terraform & AWS CDK
Data Engineering
AWS lakehouse · Kinesis, Glue (PySpark), Apache Iceberg, Lake Formation
Everything
All three domains, with the standout project from each