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Episode 5 — Why multi-stack matters

Episode 5 explains why dotmap is built for multi-stack professionals — and why visibility shouldn’t depend on which ecosystem you belong to.

Daniel Plomp

06 Jan 2026 — 1 min read

Most professionals today don’t fit neatly into a single box.

A backend developer who also builds frontends.
A designer who writes code.
A .NET engineer who experiments with JavaScript frameworks.
A DevOps consultant who runs workshops.

Tech careers are fluid, not siloed.

dotmap needed to reflect that.#developers #techcommunity #skills #buildinpublic #professionals

Breaking away from ecosystem boundaries

Traditional platforms force people into predefined stacks:

“frontend developer”
“backend developer”
“Laravel developer”
“JavaScript engineer”

But real people rarely work that rigidly.

dotmap treats skills as flexible, stack-agnostic building blocks.
Professionals can represent the range of what they do, without being confined to a single ecosystem.

Skills as a discovery tool, not a label

Skills on dotmap serve one purpose: better discovery.

They help people find:

React specialists
data analysts
mobile engineers
cloud consultants
UI/UX designers
multi-stack freelancers

Filtering becomes less about categories and more about capabilities.

A more honest representation of modern work

The tech world is interconnected.
Communities overlap.
Roles blur.

dotmap’s approach to skills mirrors that reality instead of simplifying it away.

Professionals aren’t single-stack — and their profiles shouldn’t be either.

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