Career
How to Leverage 3 Engineer Archetypes for Team Success as a Tech Lead
Discover how to leverage three distinct engineer archetypes—Coding Monsters, Workaround Finders, and Glues—to build high-performing teams as a Tech Lead.
Career
How to Protect Your Software Engineer Career in an Uncertain Tech World
Navigate the volatile tech landscape with strategies to safeguard your career. Learn why your job isn't family and how to thrive amid uncertainty.
Career
4 Essential Learnings to be Successful as a Tech Lead (and in Life)
Current or aspiring Tech Lead? These 4 key insights will set you up for success and make you the top candidate when opportunities arise.
Career
Why Hard Skills Bring You Here but Won't Get You There
In the tech world hard skills are the traits with which you get a foot into the door. If you want to grow your career or want to lead at some point, that won't be enough. In this article, I am sharing a few benefits of changing your mindset when becoming a Tech Lead.
Career
3 Strategies to Reach Win-Win as a Tech Lead
Win-Win can be a game-changer in your team and company. Here are three strategies that will help you to make the first step towards implementation.
Career
8 Benefits of Reaching Win-Win as a Tech Lead
In the work environment - but also at home - there is one behavior which will differentiate you from all others if done right. This is one of the skills that is worth practicing again and again as it will benefit you tremendously. Reaching Win-Win.
Engineering
3 Nasty ways complexity influences software projects
Having a gut feeling that the system you are working on is too complex? But you are missing numbers about the consequences? This article will give insights about the magnitude of the consequences ad pointers for a discussion with fellow engineers and managers.
Engineering
3 Approaches to reduce complexity in software systems
Many approaches exist to handle complexity in a software system. In this article I will touch three of them: general- vs. special-purpose modules, using layers and staying consistent.
Engineering
The importance of information hiding in modules
In programming some modules feel more complex than others. Why is that? Often the complex modules do not hide their complexity well.
Expat Life
5 Lessons I learned during my first year in China
Over a year ago my family and I moved to China to work and live. Time for a retrospective. What turned out how I expected it, what did not?
Expat Life
My biggest challenges settling in China
Did you settle in already? A question that I heard many times after moving to China. In this post I give insights into my biggest challenges after coming to China and how I dealt with them.
Career
Expectations and growth strategies for Senior Software Engineers
In this article I want to give a brief overview of what I think is expected of a Senior Software Engineer, what you should aim for to be good and how you can grow. This information would have been tremendously helpful to me when I started my journey in software development.