Two years ago, I joined Sanoma Media Finland seeking new challenges in product development and more meaningful work in media. During these two years, I have collaborated with exceptional colleagues, worked on complex technical challenges and learned a lot about efficient teamwork.
This is the story of how I burned out for the first time in my career as a software developer. It's a journey that taught me hard lessons about the importance of self-awareness, balance, and the dangers of not seeing the warning signs.
This post is a summary of Chapter 6, "Amazing Meetings", from The Making of a Manager by Julie Zhuo.
Good meetings are simple and straightforward. Practice clarity and ruthless efficiency with your meetings, and people will thank you for respecting the sanctity of their time.
I'm starting a new job next week. This seems like a good opportunity to look back on my career as software engineer. What did I expect from the different jobs and positions and what happened?
"You have good values." This is one of the nicest things anyone could say to me. Values tell who we are and what we think is important. If my coworkers can see my values in how I behave, I think I have succeeded in my working career.
During the last three years, I've had the opportunity to conduct some 70 technical interviews. In all these interviews, I've asked candidates the same question: "What is good software?" In this post, I'd like to share some ideas of answers to this question.
This post is an attempt to summarize what I have learned of product development during my seven years building software products in the industry. Please let me know what you think and what is missing!
Two and a half years ago we started developing a software application for creating training data for ML applications. The heart application of this annotation tool is a REST API built with Django. The API serves as the backend for a Vue front-end and a Python SDK.
This post is a summary of Never Split the Difference by Chris Voss.
This post is a summary of Chapter 2, "How to work well in teams", from Software Engineering at Google.
Software development is a team endeavor. To succeed in a team, you must reorganize your behavior around the core principles of humility, respect, and trust. What makes or breaks your career is how well you collaborate with others.