Engineering Management

What’s the ideal organizational setup for a company building a digital product? Of course, there’s no single answer. It depends on many factors, including the stage of the organization, business domain, company culture, and underlying technology. But here I’d like to share the approach and principles our team has successfully…

When taking a job as a software engineering manager or leader, particularly in the startup world, it’s common not to receive guidance on what your job is, how you relate to other members of the organization, or training on how to do your job. The responsibilities can be very different…

I wanted to share a few of my past experiences by dealing or working with diverse types of personalities. Motivation Styles How to determine motivational style of different personalities. Good leaders are able to motivate their team. …

Motivation is one of the most important topics in the field of behavioral psychology. It is also a subject every team lead needs to understand. When a team doesn’t have well established processes of figuring out and facilitating motivation, the employees have no way to address their problems and doubts…

When we launched SourceLevel, we had a great focus on Automated Code Review, through 30+ Open Source linters (including support for Ruby, JavaScript, Elixir, Golang, PHP, Python, etc.). During product validation we have introduced some use case metrics which includes Work In Progress, Engagement, and Deliveries. Last year, we released…

The typical model of business needs rethinking. Traditionally, businesses run in a rather industrial structure, almost militaristic. There are layers upon layers of management, with large gaps between the people who do the work and those who control the strategy. …

Different perspective in defining roles to maximize the potential of each staff — Content This is the first entry in my new series (Office Hours) where I explore recurring topics that I’ve gathered through one on one and group discussions with engineers at Xendit and in the industry. Disclaimer, the ideas presented in this series are unavoidably heavily biased towards my own and Xendit’s…

Hackathons hold a special place in my heart (read: career path). As a fledgling programmer looking to transition into an engineering role, I attended Meetup’s company Hackathons, throwing together projects that let me flex my coding skills. I got to work with folks across the company that I normally would…

Learning to code doesn’t mean you have to become a programmer. Coding is one of those professions with a lot of transferable skills: logic, clear thinking, problem solving, and attention to detail, to name just a few. …