In a span of 3 months, I reviewed over 240 resumes as a hiring manager for engineering roles at my company. As a result, I decided to host resume reviews on my Twitch stream to share what I learned from years of wisdom gathered from applying for tech roles and…

In software engineering, we’re often thinking of old and new systems, the projects that exist and the ones that don’t. Each requires its own level of dedication. Newly formed software engineering teams come to own both greenfield and brownfield projects. This topic of being new or old is a challenge…

The greatest detriment to career development and growth is our mindset on what it means to grow and progress deeper into a career. Stigmas around career development tell people to wait another year, stay in stagnant environments, or even pursue more forms of knowledge before taking any action. Here are…

Last month I held ten 30-minute connection calls with tech professionals who responded to a simple public invitation to book a call with me. Here is what I learned and observed as themes from those calls. We all have to navigate the blockers. A person with 10+ years of experience in tech is not so different from…

This post will discuss an engineering leader’s perspective on the product management role. — Hopefully, it will prompt and inspire better practices in interviewing and growing product managers within product engineering teams. Let’s start with the basics of product management. Every product team will inevitably look to a product manager or individual to lead the product development definition and strategy.

This graduate-level algorithms class was the last class for my Master’s in Science degree at Georiga Tech. As part of the ML specialization for the Computer Science degree, I had to take CS6515 Introduction to Graduate Algorithms. During this fall semester, I was working full time. …

Data teams today are helping to acquire, scale, and understand new opportunities across a variety of industries. With engineering and domain expertise, our teams are tailoring products best suited for the use case, ultimately improving the experience of viewers and other consumers of Vox Media services. And all this is…

Recognition and appreciation in the workplace today are more important than ever for employee engagement, retention, and talent. But how can organizations better understand how to appreciate and recognize employees? This blog post will share how to do this with the help of love languages. In 1992, Gary Chapman published…