Organizing Work is Hard

As an engineering team grows it becomes imparitive that the leadership among that team grows to scale as well. We all know that organizing work on a product is difficult, but the organization of the engineering team specifically plays the most significant role in the overall developer experience. My personal experience up till this point has been to work mostly on projects or features either by myself or with a single other more senior developer. Over the last quarter I was given the temporary title of technical lead on a project with 4 other developers, which presented an extremely difficult learning opportunity for me. ...

November 27, 2019 · 5 min · JD

Tips for Breaking into the Tech Industry

This is a repost of my original 2017 blog post. It maybe a little outdated. I recently got my first developer job as a Quality Assurance Engineer at a company called Modern Message and I want to share a few tips on things I did to help me eventually land this job. I’m a student at Bloc which is a remote, self-paced developer bootcamp. I managed to pick their longest track called the Software Engineering Track. ...

December 28, 2017 · 9 min · JD