Undervalued Software Engineering Skills: Writing Well
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 »
Code review request best practices
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. »
Work with me at Uber, in Amsterdam!
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 »
Scaling Engineering Teams via Writing Things Down and Sharing - aka RFCs
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 »
Efficient Software Project Management at its Roots
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 »
Distributed architecture concepts I learned while building a large payments system
I joined Uber two years ago as a mobile software engineer with some backend experience. I ended up building the payments functionality in the app - »
Seven things that helped me move into engineering management
I have moved from being a tech lead to engineering manager close to a year ago. I wanted to share some of the things that over »
Things I've learned transitioning from engineer to engineering manager
A couple of months ago I moved from a senior engineer position to being an engineering manager on a medium sized team. I've found this role »
Transitioning From Objective C to Swift in 4 Steps - Without Rewriting The Existing Code
We started developing Skyscanner TravelPro in Objective C in March 2015. A couple of months later, when Swift 2.0 was released, we started to slowly »
My Code Ended Up Running an Oil Rig. These are the 5 Things I Learned.
In 2010 I built one of the most advanced charting libraries available for Windows, Visiblox [1]. Originally I was pretty convinced it would mostly be finance »