Manhole CoverA huge sense of accomplishmentI was able to guarantee that our service (which is at the bottom of the attack of our infrastructure) doesn’t take upper of the stack…Feb 16, 2021Feb 16, 2021
Manhole CoverWhen I failed but learnedI failed to build a relationship with a key contributor which led to a lot of frictions and slowed down my own growth.Feb 16, 2021Feb 16, 2021
Manhole CoverA creative solution for effectively querying X509 certificate attributesI could not query our service logs for attributes I was interested in and had to come up with a fast and creative solution to do it.Feb 16, 2021Feb 16, 2021
Manhole CoverChallenging decision to not hire someoneI think the most challenging decisions are the ones that affect other people. I had to say no to a person who wanted to join my team as a…Feb 15, 2021Feb 15, 2021
Manhole CoverFix non-working certificatesMy team provides X509 certificates for many use cases inside of the company network. One such use case is to use them for a sandboxed web…Feb 15, 2021Feb 15, 2021
Manhole CoverInfluence a team on serial numbers sizeOnce, when I just joined my last team I was looking through team members' tasks and code reviews to learn more about this team problem…Feb 15, 2021Feb 15, 2021
Manhole CoverDefuse an escalating situationI was attending a meeting. The meeting was between three leads of different engineering teams including me. All three leads worked on…Feb 14, 2021Feb 14, 2021
Manhole CoverSurprised by overlookDuring a performance evaluation, one peer provided no-data-to-evaluate feedback to one of my reports. They surprised me. What did I…Feb 14, 2021Feb 14, 2021
Manhole CoverPrinciplesI learnt about Dubai from pictures on internet fifteen years ago. Modern and luxurious architecture amazed me. I researched a little more…Dec 3, 2020Dec 3, 2020
Manhole CoverCritical thinkingYesterday I was scrolling through a feed of TED talks when one title struck me — “Can we create vaccines that mutate and spread?”. I was…Oct 27, 2020Oct 27, 2020
