Full-time programmer, part-time writer, and lifelong learner — Bio Hey! I am a programmer, hacker, computer science engineer, and product developer from Bangalore, India. I have 16+ years of Software engineering experience across multiple technologies including High-performance web backend platforms, Cloud services deployment. These are some of the areas I have worked in: Product Development, Systems software & firmware…

But still, I feel I am on the right path — Even after writing 100 blogs, I still feel I am still a newbie. I am earning about $200–300 per month, but still have no clue what makes an article viral. I have a good understanding of how to write an article that would get curated. …

From Cheapest Car to Leading EV Market in India — “I don’t believe in taking right decisions. I take decisions and then make them right.” — Ratan Tata The story of Tata Motors reflects what their chairman, Ratan Tata once said. The transition from making average cars to acquiring JRL to making great EVs in India. …

Damn! I was so ignorant — Till 2020, I was ignorant about the online creator space. I was only focused on my 9–5. Now when I look back, I can not get over the fact that how uninformed or ignorant I was. I regret, why I restricted myself to only 9–5 all these years and not…

Simple but effective changes! — Software developers prefer to tweak their tools and operating system to make them more effective and programmer-friendly. The reason I prefer Linux as the OS is because of the customizations that can be done on it. There are many reasons to use Linux as my most preferred OS for software…

It’s easy to spot them! — I have met quite a few inexperienced developers in my professional career who consider themselves to be the best and are not ready to learn. It is not easy to deal with them and make them contribute to the project efficiently. When you meet such a person you might feel…

Not following agile might be better — “Agile methods derive much of their agility by relying on the tacit knowledge embodied in the team, rather than writing the knowledge down in the plans.” — Barry Boehm This quote from Barry Boehm presents the crux of the Agile methodology. The agile way is a continuous learning process rather…

Estimates are approximations by nature — Estimating the time and effort for a piece of work is not easy as we try to be very accurate for something that is an approximate calculation. It is bound to go off track. And then you land up in the meeting where everyone is trying to find out —…

Roadmap to be a builder — “You don’t learn to walk by following rules. You learn by doing, and by falling over.” — Richard Branson I have seen many beginners who focus on learning to program using a popular programming language. Their focus is on knowing the syntax and writing simple programs. Building an application should…