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I have mostly focused on being a generalist software engineer since that job market is big with lots of options. In my current search, I was highlighting attributes from my experience to try to sell myself as an expert in a specific tech stack. I am curious about this question generally, but the stack is react/redux and performance on the web.

With 10 YOE under my belt, I have heard that you can go into management or become a domain expert. I am interested in finding out how to sell myself and find work as a domain expert.

* How to find companies experiencing pain points in a specific area? * Do companies look to hire experts? Or do they mostly hire generalists that they then allow to skill-up while on the job in a specific area? * Has anyone successfully become an expert in a stack and work through consulting and/or hired specifically for that experience? * Do the maintainers of the open source projects get hired for their expertise on their own open source projects? (The redux maintainers don't even work full time on redux. Mostly at random start ups.)