Hello and welcome to my humble web page.
If you’re here, you’re probably interested in my work as a frontend engineer. To give you an idea of myself as a dev:
- My work philosophy is greatly informed by my time in San Francisco, particularly as a growth engineer at Slack.
- I try to view projects from a holistic perspective. Everything you write will become tech debt. However, I also find that developer pain points usually translate into business costs, and it’s worth addressing them.
- Data is great. It’s important to use to measure the success of an initiative or identify what to build next. I believe that giving developers insight into data can be very encouraging.
- In the six thinking hats model, I often wear the green hat. Otherwise, I usually swap between the white, red, and yellow hats.
- I understand that hiring a multinational team brings about its own challenges. It’s one thing to impose company values onto an internationally diverse team, but it’s another to understand that each person potentially brings a wildly different set of expectations to their working lives.
- I highly value empathy and nonviolent communication despite “empathy” being an industry buzzword. Years in the industry have shown me: Computers are easy, people are hard.
- Engendering diversity and inclusion is great (and the ethical thing to do), but it usually has to start at the upper levels of a company. It’s also obvious when a company touts D&I for face value. Despite this, there are small things everyone can do to make their work environment just a bit more welcoming.
- Transparency: if communication didn’t happen publicly, it didn’t happen. I also find tools for visual communication (like Excalidraw, Mural, Miro etc.) incredibly helpful.
- Tech leadership is a great skill that can be exercised by any developer at any level. There’s much more to being a great developer than just coding.
- Burnout is a huge issue in this industry, especially for those underrepresented in tech.
- I don’t believe that all developers need to be pushed towards the next promotion. What I find more important is developing a culture of psychological safety, self-improvement, and open feedback.
- Everyone makes mistakes, myself included. It’s important to have room for that. When something goes awry, it’s usually the process, not the person.