What a strong Magento specialist actually knows
Magento rewards experience. A good developer works with modules, plugins and dependency injection instead of editing core files, designs catalogs and price rules that stay maintainable, and understands indexers, cache layers and Elasticsearch well enough to fix slow category pages.
They are comfortable with Hyvä or PWA Studio front ends, GraphQL APIs and the Adobe Commerce cloud setup, and they can plan upgrades between 2.4 releases without a freeze.