Adopting a proactive state of mind — Starting a new job can be daunting, or so it was for me as I started a new job couple of months ago. …

After four years as a software developer, I had nearly zero experience in the cloud environment, components, or designing to scale when I started looking for a new job. …

Blueprint of a sprint plan you can adjust for your interview journey — When starting to interview for the tech industry, some engineers tend to start grinding leetcode and sending resumes, but being organized and thorough helped me meet my goals without getting lost or signing with the wrong company. Each sprint I present clear goals that take you closer to acing those…

How to Make Leetcode Your Best Friend I spent the last months doing 'the tech interview grind', solving dozens of questions, and studying for those big tech interviews, ending with some great offers - my 5 sprints plan for the job hunt is here. I present a handful of tips to maximize the knowledge and experience gained while…

How a Strict No-Comments Policy Pushed Me To Be a Better Developer. — I spent four years in a workplace with a strict no-comments approach in code reviews. I was sometimes frustrated, but this also pushed me to become a better developer. Here are a couple of things I learned along the way. I was writing comments for the right reasons but with an opposite result I genuinely wanted to help others read my code; I…

How to get stuff done, trust yourself & the value of teammates. I'm writing the story of a big refactor task; what were the main decisions along the way. I list the trade-offs and how I managed to make big progress in a short time. What was the Problem? Our business logic layer holds…

Face a fail and come out better on the other side. Making Mistakes is like Diamonds — they are forever When I was a junior developer I was terrified of Git- I feared a wrong action would break the main branch for all the developers and QA, with all the public shame that comes with it. I was envious…

Programming under pressure and presenting to my management! Background about the hackathon For the next product my company wants to develop, the R&D decided on 2 mini-hackathons. In the first one, we researched technologies and came up with a nice list of options. …

Go-to commands for networking issues — Ports are communication endpoints, thus they are the main suspects when we have communication problems. Recently I was dealing with a bug where client-side failed to reach the server in an application I was running. Since both server and client were third party, I couldn’t change the code directly. …