Geek, agilista, blogger, codefella, serial reader. In the daylight - I navigate & lead software engineering. #lean #design #aws #elixir #analytics. I speak here for myself only.
As a person who actively builds teams for many years, I can share with you what's the first thing that happens after I publish a new open position post/ad (in social media or on specialized job boards): nearly instantaneously, I get contacted by ... no, not by enthusiastic...
I am yet to see a company in full control over its technical & model debt, with long-term stable development agility and the unshakeable ratio between new development & maintenance work. Usually, it's an inevitable downslide with a varying speed & acceleration. Development gets slower, maintenance gets...
During my mindfulness studies, I've encountered an interesting concept - a very simple but powerful one: neutral thinking. The best definition I've found on the web is credited to Trevor Moawad (actually I've just learned he's going to publish a book [https://www....
Let me start with some observations: 1. the most popular tech meet-up talks are about the most hard-core, niche, infrastructure-level optimisations & techniques - while 97% people in the audience never encounters any practical scenario these apply to (e.g. web MVC-style app programmers listening about data...
Late September 2019, I've decided that it's time for a career change, so I've started searching through the job market and talking to various companies in need of a Senior Engineering Leader. It's not that I enjoy the process of looking for...
Just like in the previous years (... , 2018 [https://no-kill-switch.ghost.io/my-reading-summary-for-2018-with-recommendations/], 2017 [https://no-kill-switch.ghost.io/my-reading-summary-for-2017-with-recommendations/], ...), I'd like to re-visit what I've read within the last 12...
