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From the audience to the stage: how a backend engineer learnt to give talks
X In 2019 I was in the audience at Bengaluru meetups. Since then I've given talks in Bengaluru, Delhi, Goa, Pilani and Chicago. Here's every one, in order.
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The engineering books I'd read first, and how I actually get through them X A Blind post listed 9 books for a >600K/yr engineering job. I've read 8 of them. Here are the ones I'd read first, and the habits that get me through books.
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The Redis Paradox: my DelhiFOSS 2.0 talk at IIT Delhi, written up X The written version of my DelhiFOSS 2.0 talk on Redis beyond caching: a short history of caches, live driver matching with GEO commands, and Pub/Sub.
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Speccing a Shopify app for a friend: Etsy-to-Shopify inventory sync
Obsidian A friend needed a Shopify app that keeps stock in sync with Etsy. Before any code, I wrote him a spec to hand to a developer: scope, diagrams and a 70-hour initial estimate.
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馃尪 Just writing code doesn't make you a good Software Engineer! 馃尪
LinkedIn Six habits beyond coding that turn a coder into a 10x product engineer, from focusing on the end-user and communicating well to documenting everything.
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Reading notes: Psychology of Money, Deep Work and two more X What I took away from The Psychology of Money, a second read of Deep Work, a Mark Manson passage on victimhood chic, and my weekend pick, Ego is the Enemy.
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Job hunt 4.0: five weeks of senior and staff interviews, and what I got wrong Obsidian An offer pulled in the crypto winter, a warm-up in November 2021, about 40 companies in one Obsidian note, and my notes on every round I fumbled.
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Two system design problems from my 2022 interviews, worked with real numbers Obsidian A photo pipeline for a fleet of 360-degree camera cars and an A/B split-testing service: requirements, capacity math, data model and the parts I'd tighten.
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Interview prep, senior edition: a system design checklist, one backtracking template and what loops grade on Obsidian My 2022 prep notes for senior and staff interviews: a system design checklist, one Python DFS for seven backtracking problems, rubrics and a STAR story bank.
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Millionaire by 12? The WhiteHat Jr ad and India's pressure culture X A WhiteHat Jr ad promising 'CEO at Age 13' got me ranting about a childhood where Maths beat Music, and an engineering batch that mostly did B.Tech for the prestige or because they 'had' to.
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Wingify DevFest 2018: a data selfie, emotion detection and a rocket regression X Wingify DevFest 2018, session by session: a keynote, Google Cloud on AI, a data selfie, emotion detection, distributed deep learning, NLP for Indic languages and a Kaggle rocket problem.
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Post[0] = "why tech?"
GitHub blog I always talk about how I am a huge nerd when it comes to tech. So, what better way to start my engineering blog than talking about "why tech?".
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Face recognition on a Raspberry Pi 3 at Shuttl X We built face-recognition boarding for Shuttl on a Raspberry Pi 3 with Python and OpenCV. Low FPS, a crunch and a TV demo.
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Leaving Adobe, my dream company, without an offer in hand X Nearly three years at Adobe, my dream company. Then a farewell mail on 3 April 2017, no offer in hand, and a few months later the gig I wanted.
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The best resource to prepare for a Software Engineering interview | Fresher Edition
BitSnapper Discover the best resource to prepare for a Software Engineering interview and make sure that you clear it like a boss. Tried 'n' Tested.
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How to (easily) get a kickass job through eLitmus? BitSnapper Are you an engineering fresher? Discover the best strategy to crack eLitmus and bag that dream job. Bonus item: Secret Ninja eLitmus preparation material.
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"The Cockroach Theory for Self Development" by Sundar Pichai BitSnapper Incredible fast rise of Sundar Pichai, SVP, Google, piqued my curiosity which led to my discovering of his own "The Cockroach Theory for Self Development"
- Forty Windows Phone projects as "Jaykay", and the one that stuck
Hanuman Chalisa, Imaging SDK filters, a wallpaper factory and the one app that hit 1.5 million downloads: two years of Windows Phone apps as Jaykay.
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Win 10 HD Wallpapers [WP App] BitSnapper Who doesn't love wallpapers? Try Win 10 HD Wallpapers for Windows Phone to grab the best of tailormade 250+ HD Wallpapers with 1.5mn downloads & 4k reviews!
- Three dead Flipkart vouchers, nearly 40 emails and a DVLUP refund
In August I spent 3,000 DVLUP points on three Rs 1,000 Flipkart gift cards. None of them worked. Five and a half months later I got my points back.
- From zero campus placements to Adobe: my 2014 job hunt
No company came to my college. A 2am mail to Wingify, a TCS offer at someone else's campus, three offers in one morning, Webyog, and then Adobe.
- The Windows Phone apps I'm not proud of: a 3G booster that was just a progress bar
Four of my Windows Phone booster apps passed certification as a progress bar and a random number. Eight more were App Studio apps on other people's brands.
- DVLUP, Nokia events and freebie #12: my Lumia tally so far
Twelve DVLUP freebies by my own count, from a Lumia 625 in January to a Lumia 1320 yesterday, and the Nokia and Microsoft events along the way.
- Everything I learnt outside class at GGSIPU
Four years of B.Tech CSE at GGSIPU: 9% attendance, a 2,800-fan Facebook page, Baja, DRDO, a one-night call-centre job and 70-480 in 18 minutes.
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Two Saturdays, two meetups: Delhi User Group and BarCamp Delhi 9 X Delhi User Group at Microsoft in Cyber City, then BarCamp Delhi 9 at SAP Labs: the line-ups, the sessions I sat in, and what I live-tweeted from both.
