Archive - Become a Senior Engineer

🎓 How a Senior engineer effectively onboards at a new job.

Mar 28, 2024 • Aken Roberts

🎓 Why Seniors embrace bug bashing and site reliability duties.

Bug fixing might not be glamorous, but it can often be challenging, fulfilling, and a great source of knowledge and experience.

May 2, 2024 • Aken Roberts

🎓 Increasing Development Speed & Stability With Feature Flags

Make engineering look good by adding more control to your deliverables.

Nov 4, 2024 • Aken Roberts

#4: Read ALL The Documentation

Read The 🤬ing Manual! How senior engineers consume documentation to improve their knowledge and productivity.

Jan 4, 2024 • Aken Roberts

🎓 Why you should be pair programming more often.

Technical, soft skills, and career growth benefits are abundant when you pair effectively. Do it more!

Apr 4, 2024 • Aken Roberts

My Introduction

From WYSIWYG editors to pizza delivery to six figures 💰 My story of getting started in software development and where it has taken me along the way!

Jan 9, 2024 • Aken Roberts

A Snowy Last-Minute Friday Edition

Good afternoon, devs!

Jan 12, 2024 • Aken Roberts

Communicating To Stakeholders

How seniors effectively communicate to stakeholders by understanding needs, classifying Power vs. Interest, and tailoring communication appropriately.

Feb 8, 2024 • Aken Roberts

🎓 What `MVP` actually means; Horizontal vs. Vertical scaling

What `MVP` Actually Means

Mar 21, 2024 • Aken Roberts

🎓 LEAKED: The Underground Shortcut to Becoming a Senior Engineer Without Years of Hard Work!

1,000X your path and leave your peers in the dust!

Apr 1, 2024 • Aken Roberts

🎓 Get more productivity, fewer distractions from Slack; Reduce tech debt by automating dependency updates

How to make Slack and automation work for YOU, not the other way around.

Mar 7, 2024 • Aken Roberts

#5: Leave Everything Better Than You Found It

Constant improvement of your surroundings adds up exponentially over time.

Jan 11, 2024 • Aken Roberts

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