Journey of an Engineering Leader
Leadership insights from lived experiences and reading
We had a nice social event for US Engineering event yesterday in our Mountain View head quarter of Twin Health followed by a hiking in Rancho San Antonio Open Space Preserve which is within 10 miles of our office. I was part of team dragon; we were 3rd out of 5 teams while fullstackers won.… Continue reading Twin Health US Engineering Social Event
I left Marqeta last week to join Twin Health today as Director of Engineering, Treatment Platform reporting into CTO and Co-Founder Terry Poon. As part of onboarding, I finished a long HIPAA training. So far everything is looking great. The team is very welcoming and my manager is highly respected and knowledgable in the field.… Continue reading Joined Twin Health
Last month a medium article on payments ecosystem through a LinkedIn connection Ahmed Siddiqui caught my eye. It's part of a series of articles on how debit and credit cards work end to end. I found the article very informative and the author an ex-marqetan. When I reached out over slack, he told me about… Continue reading The Anatomy of the Swipe: Making Money Move by Ahmed Siddiqui
These are some of the topics that a standard backend engineer should know. Here we are consciously excluding any particular tool, framework or programming language. Instead we want to focus on topics related to high level system design and architecture. It can't be an exhaustive list ever. I will try my best to keep adding… Continue reading High Level System Design and Architecture Topics
What about starting the weekend in a light mode? How busy our techies in bay area are in their day to day work? Here is a sample.
My short technical review at G2Crown on Amazon Aurora - https://www.g2crowd.com/products/amazon-aurora/reviews/amazon-aurora-review-1434493
As people are rushing towards crypto currencies now-a-days and specially to buy Bitcoin, they often find it difficult to figure out which web site to use to buy. Sometimes they give up with frustration looking at too many steps involved to get in. I myself have faced it once earlier but finally got over the… Continue reading Step by Step: Easy Ways to Purchase Bitcoin, Ethereum and Litecoin
Today Adobe completes the acquisition of TubeMogul. So I will be an Adobe employee from new year 2017. http://www.multichannel.com/prfeed/adobe-completes-acquisition-tubemogul/409788 Newsroom Link Last Friday we had the last TubeMogul Holiday party at Ferry Building, San Francisco. We enjoyed it. Here is a picture taken from the photo booth in the party.
Today TubeMogul Engineering Blog published my first engineering article. TubeMogul’s Engineering team uses a number of tools to help us collaborate and track progress more effectively, including Git, the popular version control system. Git’s commit messages are an integral part of establishing context for code changes, and maintaining an effective workflow. Read on for some… Continue reading My Engineering Article from TubeMogul – Git Commit Message
It's been 6 weeks since I joined TubeMogul leaving Salesforce. The decision to leave Salesforce was not an easy one, as Salesforce is one of the leading and most innovative software companies in the world with approximately 17 thousand employees. When I joined there 8 years back, they had a little more than 3 thousand… Continue reading Joined TubeMogul Leaving Salesforce
My First Java Code Commit to GitHub. For now I have started with a simple class and will keep adding more classes as I get time - ListPerformanceTestSimple.java https://github.com/ashikuzzaman/javaapichecks I had to do some trial and error before finally all the setups worked in my Ubuntu box. You can save the trial and error time… Continue reading My First Java Code Commit to GitHub
I like free online tools as I use Mac, Ubunutu, Windows, iPhone and iPad at different times from different locations for same or different purposes, both office work or chess or other interests. I use http://www.onlinehtmleditor.net/ as Online HTML Editor. I use http://www.jsoneditoronline.org/ as online JSON Editor. Now I wanted to come out of Visio… Continue reading Trying Out Gliffy as Online Diagramming Tool
Journey of an Engineering Leader 