How does mentoring work? I asked this question ten years into my software engineering career when I joined Uber. Until then, I've never received or done mentoring, or at least never put this label on any activity I've done before. »
I've recently read An Elegant Puzzle: Systems of Engineering Management, written by Will Larson. After working at Yahoo and Digg, Will was an engineering manager for two years at Uber, leaving for Stripe right around when I started and transitioned »
For the past few years, I've been building and operating a large distributed system: the payments system at Uber. I've learned a lot about distributed architecture concepts during this time and seen first-hand how high-load and high-availability systems are challenging »
I have been doing day to day code reviews for over a decade now. The benefits of code reviews are plenty: from someone else reading through the change, through knowledge sharing all the way to tooling and automation improvements. If »
I have been coaching several experienced software engineers to further grow professionally, since transitioning to being an engineering manager. I have noticed a few skills that people often underestimate the importance of developing. Skills that add a significant boost to »
When an engineer proposes code changes to the codebase as part of their work and have code reviews in place, they create a code review request. This change consists of a description of the change and the actual changed files. »
At Uber, my team is working on something new, big and exciting around payments. And I'm looking for talented full stack engineers to build delightful experiences that millions of people will use. Update Jan 2018: The specific roles I was »
I have recently been talking at small and mid-size companies, sharing engineering best practices I see us use at Uber, which I would recommend any tech company adopt as they are growing. The one topic that gets both the most »
After a decade of shipping software projects in various environments, I have started to notice patterns on projects that are more successful than others. The most surprising thing I'm seeing is how actual, day to day project management methodology is »
[Update] Read also the follow-up post for this article: Operating a large, distributed system in a reliable way. I joined Uber two years ago as a mobile software engineer with some backend experience. I ended up building the payments functionality »