Has become/became - along the way

Hi everyone!
Could someone please share their thoughts on how natural the present perfect tense sounds in the following context? Would it read better with "as a result" instead of "along the way"? It's a description of a project in someone's career history, like the best project they've done or something like this.

Thanks to this experience, Anna has learnt a lot. She gathered metrics and injected them into the tool. Anna has become more knowledgeable about time series databases along the way.