After this lesson, you will be able to: Translate TS expertise into resume bullets, portfolio, interview answers.
TS is the senior frontend / full-stack signal in 2026.
Senior TS / Full-Stack Engineer: $140-$240k. TS Library Author / Tech Lead: $180-$320k. Search 'typescript engineer', 'typescript senior' on LinkedIn.
Skills: TS 5+ with strict mode, generics, mapped/conditional types, utility types, Zod for runtime validation, declaration merging, Vite + Vitest + Playwright. Projects: 'Published TS library to npm with full type inference.' 'Migrated a JS codebase to strict TS over 2 quarters; documented gotchas.'
'Why use TS over JS?' 'Explain a discriminated union with an example.' 'Write a generic Pick<T, K>.' 'What does `infer` do?' 'Why prefer Zod-derived types over hand-written ones?'
Two in 30 days.
Publish a TS library with full type inference.
Blog: 'How I migrated my JS codebase to strict TS'.
Solve 10 Type Challenges; publish solutions on GitHub.
Contribute a generic type to a major OSS project.
Listing 'TypeScript' without a public TS-only artifact. Skipping advanced types depth.
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