What a homeless cametaught me about caring for others
Zain Rizvi
Software Engineer with over a decade of experience building clouds. Experimenter, Life-long Student. Working at Stripe. Previously: Google, Microsoft
Hacking the Bureaucracy to Get Stuff Done
The Dangerous Professional finds the seams between the policies, and slips inside them to Get Stuff Done
What's it like as a Senior Engineer?
When I started working at Microsoft, fresh out of college, coding was my life. Writing code was the easiest way to build any cool thing that my brain could imagine. When I thought about what I’d want to do
The interviewing advice no one shares
“What would you say if I asked you to design me a service capable of responding to thousands of user requests every second and latency was critical?” “Umm...that you have to solve this problem at work. But you’re
Remembering what you Read: Zettelkasten vs P.A.R.A.
I spent over a year researching better ways to take notes and remember what I read. Here's what I found.
Quickly Building Products for ACTUAL Customers
This is my tweetstorm on key aspects to focus on when you’re building a SaaS service. It details how features that seem critical may not actually be that important. Experiment to see what your actual customers are demanding, and