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.
Discover how to leverage three distinct engineer archetypes—Coding Monsters, Workaround Finders, and Glues—to build high-performing teams as a Tech Lead.
Navigate the volatile tech landscape with strategies to safeguard your career. Learn why your job isn't family and how to thrive amid uncertainty.
Current or aspiring Tech Lead? These 4 key insights will set you up for success and make you the top candidate when opportunities arise.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
In programming some modules feel more complex than others. Why is that? Often the complex modules do not hide their complexity well.
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?
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.
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.
Engineering
The more time you spend in Software Engineering, the fewer you will be concerned about which programming language or fancy framework will be used. Another factor plays a big role in how a project develops over time and how much fun it is to work on it: System Complexity.
Expat Life
When we decided move to China in 2022, I had no idea how to look for a job there. I needed to start from scratch and get familiar with the job market. In this post I give advice on how to start a job hunt in China.
Career
In this article I want to give a brief overview of what I think is expected of a Junior 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
Finding a job as a Software Engineer in Europe with a few years of experience is still relatively easy. How does the situation look like in China? I try to answer this question by looking at the economic situation, the working style in Chinese companies as well as necessary skills of the applicant.
Expat Life
There is lots of talk about leaving your comfort zone these days. Doing it means change, and most people don't like or fear change. There are huge advantages to do this once in a while though. In this post I cover some of the bigger changes in my life and what helped me to manage that fear.
Career
In this article I want to give a brief overview of what I think is expected of a Staff Engineer, what you should aim for to be good and how you can learn and progress.
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 learn and progress.
Career
In this article I want to give a brief overview of what I think is expected of a Professional Software Engineer, what you should aim for to be good and how you can learn and progress.
Career
In this article I want to give a brief overview of what I think is expected of a Junior Software Engineer, what you should aim for to be good and how you can learn and progress.