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At the early stage of my engineering career, I often wondered, “What do my managers actually do?” What do they do beyond spending their time in meetings and talking to people (the visible part to me)? What was their job?...

One’s first few weeks at a new job are often the most exciting but also can be the most nerve-wracking. You want to do everything right, and at the same time, you want to start driving impact and prove you’re...

Over the last 10+ years, I’ve had the chance to work across continents and lead engineering teams spread across multiple countries, each with its own culture, labor laws, and work norms. The differences can be significant. What counts as performance...

If you ask a room full of people whether they would rather be a leader or a manager, you’ve already biased the results. If I was in that room, I would probably raise my hand for leader too. When we...

I recently built document auto-sync feature with Google Drive and iCloud for my personal hobby project — Keeplys. This blog post explains the challenges and my approach to solving them. For context, Keeplys is a hobby project: a simple document...

Over the past few years, I’ve led growth product teams focusing on retention and growing daily active users (DAU). Working on a myriad of challenges aimed at widening access to a global audience has deeply reshaped my understanding of inclusivity...

When we touch a hot stove, we quickly remove our hands and learn never to touch it again when it’s hot. We all learn through feedback, from the searing pain of a hot stove to the warm praise of a...

Great leaders lead by distilling the why and the what for their teams, peers, and organization, and by overcommunicating to help drive alignment, not through control – Satya Nadella Have you ever been on a team that’s stuck? A team...

A few months ago, I spoke at the WeAreDevelopers World Congress on building high-performing software teams. The feedback from that talk has been overwhelming, and I’m thrilled it resonated with many people. In this post, I will unpack one of...

You’re overwhelmed. You have an endless list of different tasks. Your schedule is stuffed with meetings and you need more time for focused work. Each meeting you attend brings more to-do items to your unending list. You’re busy throughout the...

How do you foster execution, remove roadblocks from frontline teams? Will Larson provided three ways to do this that I have found useful. First, you need to understand what’s happening on indirectly managed teams below you. Second, add things necessary...

How do I build a high-performing team? This is one of the common questions managers ask themselves. No one wants a low-performing team. We all want to build effective and high-performing teams – a team that is highly interdependent, bound...

Managers’ roles and responsibilities come in different forms and shapes, but one thing is clear: if you’re a manager, you’re there to get better outcomes from the people you work with. To be able to get better outcomes from the...

While every organization has its own way of onboarding engineers, there are few elements that will make any engineering onboarding effective. In this post, I share thoughts I have adopted that govern how I onboard engineers into my teams. Engineering...

As you develop your technical skills, you get to a point where you develop incredible confidence about your ability to deliver irrespective of any technical challenge thrown at you. But the moment you take a leap into a leadership role,...