Author: ashikuzzaman

Driven servant leader experienced in building robust and innovative team of software engineers, growing people along with business and technology. Twenty years of experience as Engineering Leader and Software Engineer in developing large scale distributed systems with specialization in Java, AWS, Microservices. A natural leader, easy to work with, and approachable excelling in motivating employees into top-performing teams.

How not to fail as an Engineering Manager

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There are plenty of resources on how to succeed as an engineering manager. But there is not enough to tell you about how not to fail. I read the article by Brad Armstrong recently which outlined some very important ones. I recommend you read and try these out. Here is the list which mentions, DO… Continue reading How not to fail as an Engineering Manager

Trillion Dollar Coach: The Leadership Playbook of Silicon Valley’s Bill Campbell

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Last year I finished 2 books that told the stories of Sillicon Valley startups in ways that I liked very much - The Hard Thing About Hard Things by Ben Horowitz and Zero to One by Peter Thiel. This April another book came up but I couldn't make time to read it until now. I just finished the… Continue reading Trillion Dollar Coach: The Leadership Playbook of Silicon Valley’s Bill Campbell

Joined Marqeta as Engineering Manager, Payments Platform

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I joined Marqeta today as Engineering Manager of Payments Platform. My last day at Roku was last Friday. It has been a nice one year and four months at Roku, working with some very cool AWS technologies along with Java based MicroServices. However, I wanted to try out engineering management and was looking for a… Continue reading Joined Marqeta as Engineering Manager, Payments Platform

My Webinar Talk at JUGBD on AWS Data Migration Service (DMS)

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I gave a talk yesterday on AWS Data Migration Service (DMS) in Bangla to Java User Group Bangladesh (JUGDB). The talk is in Bengali, so for non-Bengali speakers I am providing the link for the slides which is in English. https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=3&v=51mfqMTEGj4   AWS Data Migration Service (DMS): Amazon’s Approach To Change Data Capture (CDC)