Career

Are you neurodivergent? Have you ever thought or felt like you aren’t normal? Do you have thoughts like “I’m not good enough”, or “I don’t deserve this”, “I’m just lucky that I got this far”? Ever wondered why you feel that way? That’s what this post is about. It’s about a phenomenon called “Accomplishment Amnesia” and how to resolve it. What is it? I’m not a psychologist or a medical professional by any means. I am just a neurodivergent person who has experienced this phenomenon and through conversations have observed that others have this too. So like most curious people, I just went and did some reading and thought I’d share what I had learned and what has helped me and those I’ve spoken to about this matter. ...

I used to regularly run the engineering manager community of Practice at my current workplace. I loved and still love it. But now I barely get time to do anything extra. My hours are so squeezed into a specific slot of time - the time when my toddler is not at home. :D I got asked in the community slack channel a very important question. One that a lot of engineering managers debate in their heads. Especially if they used to be tech leads and then switched to managing others. They get their joy from helping others develop and also building something that others can use. ...

I was curious about the title - As your team gets bigger, your leadership style has to adapt. I am not Julie Zhuo, and I am not a Vice President of an organisation just yet. But as I started working at Kaluza, leading multiple teams, I felt like I had to evolve my leadership style accordingly too. The article was reassuring as I feel like I did get some things right. ...

The opportunity You are at the peak of your software engineering career. Or at least that’s what you thought at the time. You have done it all. New development, maintaining legacy applications, refactoring code, performance improvements, different kinds of database technologies, from proprietary to mainstream distributed systems. You have even tried your hand at web development and improved web app load times, things that as a backend engineer you never knew about! You are about to wonder what next to get yourself to the solutions architect or a software architect role. Then suddenly out of nowhere comes an opportunity to take on a managerial role. ...