I had my fair share in designing and building large systems. I've taken part in rewriting Uber's distributed payment systems, designing and shipping Skype on Xbox One and open-sourcing RIBs, Uber's mobile architecture framework. All of these systems had thorough »
While I do my best to keep doing networking, I have to admit that I don't think I'm that good at it. At least the traditional sense of go-to-a-meetup-and-talk-to-people type of networking. This is despite me being an extrovert and »
Product-minded engineers are developers with lots of interest in the product itself. They want to understand why decisions are made, how people use the product, and love to be involved in making product decisions. They're someone who would likely make »
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 »