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  • What to do when you feel like an imposter in Smart Contract careers

    Shehnaz Hussain

    Shehnaz Hussain

    @shehnaz
    Updated: Nov 1, 2025
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    I’ve been working as a Solidity developer for a year now, but some days I genuinely feel like an imposter in this space. Everyone around me seems to know more — zero-knowledge proofs, gas optimization, advanced audits — while I’m still trying to debug storage layouts or improve CEI patterns. Even when I deploy production contracts or mentor juniors, it feels like my wins don’t “count.”

    Interviews make it worse; I keep worrying someone will figure out I’m not as strong as my GitHub looks. How do you stay confident in smart contract careers without pretending to know it all? How do you balance continuous learning with that constant self-doubt that you’re behind?

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  • SmartChainSmith

    @SmartChainSmith • 8h

    I totally relate. I’ve been in smart contract development for 2.5 years and still get that “someone will expose me” feeling before every audit review. What helped me was keeping a private log of every issue I debugged or optimized, from storage gas costs to CEI fixes.

    Seeing your own progress in writing changes perspective. Also, senior devs don’t expect you to know everything about ZK circuits or Foundry fuzzing; they value how safely and consistently you deliver. Confidence isn’t built from knowing everything, it’s built from surviving difficult deploys and learning from them.

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