I'm at a small, dying startup doing Xamarin mobile development and I'm looking to pivot out of xamarin/mobile and into web and data. I am learning online and doing a side project on github, but I don't have experience making this kind of transition. I've thrown on an infrequent job application not expecting much and gotten 0 responses. So I am curious what others who have made that sort of transition do to get noticed.
My previous job I found through a local meetup, but it was a framework/language I was familiar with so they wanted/needed me badly.
Moving to web should be easier than data. When you do mobile development you do a little of front end and back end (I was Android developer before). Learning a high demanded framework would help in your case. Data will take more time but you can do it if you start as a data engineer developing the data pipeline. But in this case you probably should aim to bigger companies and be hired would be more difficult without experience. For web a small startup will be fine.
Thanks. Yeah data is a much steeper climb. I am going the web route(I have some experience here already) and will look for a company that does data as well, that way I can learn and get started a little easier.
What made you want to pivot from Xamarin? Did you find there is a lack of opportunities, or do you dislike the technology? As someone who is looking into moving to Xamarin development I'd be interested to hear your thoughts.
Xamarin Forms is a dead end in my opinion. I enjoyed writing non-Forms with a shared MVVM framework, but my job was in Forms. I also find mobile development to be too cornered. I was doing both platforms by myself with no room to grow as a developer. I spent too much time in Forms chasing down Forms bugs and trying to figure out why the latest version of Forms broke something new. So a bit of burnout as well. Hope that helps.
