Dev to manager journal - Introduction
Hi, I’m Alvaro Lara, a software person that is going through a journey starting in 2009 as a software development to my current engineering management position at Onfido.
I decided to start writing a journal. The initial motivation is purely a selfish one, where I am trying to put my thoughts into writing and help me digest them. The second one is one where there may be some of the stuff I been going through that could help others in a similar situation.
My intention is to write every day and do a summary I can publish in this blog every two weeks to start with. Why two weeks? Excellent question, I am not sure I have enough interesting things to share in a shorter period of time.
I have already in mind a first few posts:
- The Developer Years - Part 1, a summary of my first years as a software developer back when I was studying and living in Argentina. The different hats I had to wear, the evolving tech stacks, types of work (perm and contract) and size of companies I been through.
- The Developer Years - Part 2, talking about moving to the UK and working in a software consultancy with different clients, challenges and team structures.
- Brave new world - The first team, the first contact with the concept of leading the delivery of projects and managing humans.
I will start publishing them in the coming week or so, and then move to biweekly releases. As I catch up with current times, I will write about various situations and topics that keep coming back. Things like Manager READMEs, conflict resolution, 1-to-1s, hiring, interruptions and focus work, and how much coding is ok (spoiler alert: I have no idea yet).
Thanks for reading!