From Development to UX, from IC to Manager – and back – with Merlin Rebrovic, Google
Super senior IC roles have been common in Software Engineering, but not in UX. Merlin is ready for this new challenge.
Archive for the category: Career
The cycle of engineering career development: impostor, intuition, stagnation, repeat
Feeling the impostor syndrome when you start out. Being at ease with your daily tasks with occasional lapses into overconfidence. And just as you reach the peak, stagnation and thinking about the next steps.
Career story: From artist to self-taught developer to 3D rendering
The path to a career in tech can lead from different directions and interests. Maya, Senior Software Engineer, shares her story.
How to build an indie software business with Justin Jackson, Transistor. fm
Co-founder of podcasting platform on how to turn a software product idea into a successful business.
How to become a Distinguished Engineer with Ib Green, Foursquare
Distinguished Engineers stand as the vanguards of innovation, seamlessly merging technical prowess with creative ingenuity. In this interview, we explore approaches and insights that set them apart.
On UX and AI, being laid off from big tech and developer evangelism with Christian Heilmann
Veteran developer and developer advocate shares his disillusionment with big tech and AI being shoe-horned into everything.
What is developer burnout and how to avoid it with James Q Quick
Overtime, chasing deadlines and on-call rotations are some of the clear causes of burnout. But developers can get burned out even if they don't work long hours.
Are you ready to be a Prompt Engineer? Soon, you’ll have to be!
What if anyone could become an engineer? Even if it only meant coming up with clever prompts for data-driven AI beasts.
Big Data Engineers are at the forefront of empowering artificial intelligence
Big Data engineers provide the critical infrastructure and tools required for processing, storing, and analyzing the vast amounts of data AI systems need.
Meet Darko, who built and deployed cloud infrastructure with a Commodore 64, a Kubernetes app to Tandy 102, and that’s not all.
He has a weird hobby, he says: collecting old computers and making them do something modern they were not made to do. Like connecting to the internet or training a ML model.