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Badge Directory
Level shows depth. Specialty shows direction.
Every contributor receives one skill-level badge and any number of specialty badges. They communicate fit, not employment status or availability.
Skill progression
Builds focused projects with guidance and is developing reliable working habits.
Independently builds, tests, and delivers working product features.
Strong across debugging, architecture, APIs, and databases.
Owns complex systems and makes sound technical decisions.
Designs large systems, boundaries, integrations, and long-term technical plans.
Demonstrates deep expertise across multiple technical disciplines.
HiveHex's highest technical distinction for architecture, standards, and mentorship.
Specialties & building styles
Builds primarily through AI prompting, rapid iteration, and experimentation.
Combines traditional development skills with extensive AI tooling.
Builds AI, machine-learning, agent, and large-language-model systems.
Specializes in interfaces, accessibility, UX, React, and CSS.
Specializes in servers, databases, APIs, and business logic.
Works confidently across frontend and backend systems.
Owns deployment, infrastructure, observability, and CI/CD.
Focuses on application, infrastructure, and system security.
Builds native and cross-platform iOS and Android applications.
Builds games, simulations, and interactive experiences.
Creates bots, scripts, integrations, and workflow automation.
Designs databases, pipelines, analytics, and large-scale data flows.
Works on lower-level systems and hardware/software integration.
Contributes code and knowledge to shared public projects.
Rapidly prototypes unusual ideas and emerging technologies.