That's the thing. You don't get credit for those death by a thousand cuts queries that come with a universal X is the person with the answers rep.
None of my superior knew we had an office in Serbia either...let alone crediting me with "yes havoc is totally flooded but he helped serbia guy anyway".
Note that I'm talking general corporate here. Things may be different in a pure SWE eng context. My observation is strictly corporate life...may or may not extrapolate to SWE context.
Sounds to me like you've turned yourself into a Staff Engineer, and should ask for that next review cycle. What I'm hearing is that you're influencing the whole organization by enabling many people to get more stuff done, beyond what you could be doing as an individual contributor. That's a very, very good thing.
You can only write so much code per day. If you can help 100 people be 10% more productive, you're leveraging your knowledge to help the whole company do 10x more than you could personally do. Congratulations!
I work in a big software company with 100k and i get asked about stuff from people.
But i'm seen as knowledgeable and my manager basically lets me completly alone doing my thing and gives me all benefits regarding salary he can to keep me.
That promotion is going to need a backfill and the organization may decide that it’s best to keep you in your place. Though it could lead to being able to negotiate a raise earlier than normal.
This idea, I think, is a huge hole that most organizations have. Which is that salary is too tied to hierarchical structure. If you have someone that is amazing at doing something valuable, they should be able to keep getting raises without necessarily getting promoted out of the role. We have this in some measure with jobs that are easily commission-able, but it's not common for tech roles or HR or whatever.
