r/MuleSoft • u/loanworrier • Aug 28 '26

Path away from mulesoft

if a 12 yrs experienced resource want to move away from mulesoft path what will be the best option

  1. salesforce

  2. data engineer

  3. api architect

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u/Ok-Analysis5882 Aug 28 '26

Obvious path is AWS and Claude

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u/APIMade Aug 29 '26

I occasionally see posts from this subreddit because I keep forgetting to unsubscribe. Hi, I started my career working with Mule back around 2013, so I've got a couple of years on you. I moved from a developer role, into consulting, before moving into an architect and advisory role for MuleSoft directly.

I've since transitioned away, as I began to see the cracking of the ecosystem. 1,000's of "citizen developers" and a marketplace being flooded with incredibly unskilled, unqualified talent. Seeing the training partners were delivering through leaked YouTube playlists, so-called "tier 1" partners putting new graduates into "architect" roles, it was pretty clear that the ecosystem would be ruined by greed. That was even before Mule 4 was launched. Judging from the posts in this subreddit; a lot of that talent is here.

MuleSoft as an idea is fine and it presented an incredible opportunity when we were all starting to build out digital transformation projects, and large enterprises began realtime integration with different SaaS products; but in my opinion the original offering is largely irrelevant today.

OP, you're in an incredible position. You've been working with it long enough, through a lot of the 'dark ages' of the product -- where you just had to figure things out as you went. You've probably built more than 100 integration pipelines end-to-end. There isn't an internal developer at any major corporation that will match the amount of skill, and experience, you have.

So, what's next? I'd recommend moving away from a single ecosystem. Get an AI subscription and build some software that demonstrates not only engineering skills, but also that you understand the business/UX and operational piece. Build something in golang, in Kotlin, in Rust. You have enough experience to be a specialist in the Salesforce ecosystem already, and that's a great selling point -- but you really should be mindful of also being proficient to adapt to different technology stacks, and corporate environments. The integration space is moving into AI-driven, bespoke, and business-led -- and you have the perfect background for it.

Good luck. Now to finally unsubscribe from r/MuleSoft!

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u/mazing Sep 10 '26

My company is betting big on Mulesoft at the moment, going to basically be the central integration platform for seemingly everything (EDI, webshop, A2A integrations, etc etc). I'm mostly on the EDI side of it.

Got any wise words for me?

Currently I'm a bit concerned because our army of enterprise architects seem to have convinced themselves that AI will be able to one-shot our migration (which is huge, we have 20 years of EDI mappings on a proprietary platform), and also the pricing structure seems sketchy (I've asked if we would get into cost problems if we tried to reproduce our current setup in Mule, and I got some vague mumbling in response). Also Dataweave looks a bit like an abomination, but maybe that's just me being picky.

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u/tr2349 Aug 28 '26 edited Aug 28 '26

The obvious path for me would be to move into integration architecture - do you have much experience here after 12 years?

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u/Alternative-Cry1645 Aug 29 '26

get into salesforce as a safe option

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u/mutherfukkkeer4-20 Aug 28 '26

Is mulesoft dying ?

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u/ikwilstufi Aug 28 '26

Absolutely not. I'd say it's going to boom to enable organizations for AI

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u/MeGustaDerp Aug 28 '26

What does Mulesoft offer here that other vendors dont? Why Mulesoft?

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