Career
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
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
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
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
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
In programming some modules feel more complex than others. Why is that? Often the complex modules do not hide their complexity well.
Expat Life
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
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
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.
Expat Life
Being sick in a foreign country can be exhausting. Different rules, different processes, different language. In this post I give an overview of the health care system in Germany and China. I also detail my experiences of seeing doctors in China.
Engineering
Knowing what system complexity is is good. You might ask though, how you can identify system complexity and how you can manage it. In this article I will introduce the three manifestations of system complexity and three patterns to control it.
Expat Life
Understanding cultural differences before you are in an interview situation can be a big plus. In this article I want to introduce you to the subtle differences of an interview setting in China.
