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On my last team, I mentored a junior dev on a small but real feature: adding a “saved filters” panel to our analytics dashboard used by about 4,000 monthly users. Instead of handing him a solution, we whiteboarded the flow together: React UI changes, a new REST endpoint, and a small Postgres table for storing filters per user. I had him draft the API contract first, then we reviewed it live, talking through versioning, validation, and error shapes. On the front end, I paired with him for the first component, then asked him to implement the rest and come back with questions. For the database, I asked him to propose the schema and indexes and justify them. We shipped the feature in one sprint, and it cut common filter setup time by ~30%. More importantly, his next feature required half as much guidance, and he started doing his own end‑to‑end designs that passed review with minimal comments.
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