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What you need to know about data structures to be a better software engineer

Feb 15, 202118 min read

From blood oxygen level sensors on the latest Apple 6 watch series to the latest video upload on social media to user activity tracking in a web application, data is created at a neck-breaking pace in our world today . This massive amount of data ge...

The Best, Worst, and Most Interesting Moments from my Marathon Month of Technical Interviews

Oct 14, 202013 min read

Since I shared my story on the lessons I learned from doing 60+ technical interviews in 30 days, quite a good number of folks have reached out to me on Twitter and on LinkedIn with many questions. Some of the questions I got include: “How is it possi...

What I Learned from Doing 60+ Technical Interviews in 30 Days

Jul 31, 202013 min read

In this article, I’ll share my motivation for doing 60+ technical interviews in 30 days. More importantly, I’ll share 13 lessons I learned from my failures and my successes. I’ve grouped the lessons into three categories to match the phases of a typi...

TypeScript Generics and Type Guards - Explained by Example

Mar 31, 20208 min read

TypeScript has some powerful features that enable easy building of scalable JavaScript applications. This article describes how we leveraged two TypeScript features: generics and type guards in writing a robust utility function. How a utility functio...

The Observer Design Pattern — An Android Implementation

Jun 1, 2018

Hi there, it’s a great pleasure having you here. I’m guessing you are a software engineer and you know about software design patterns, cool! However, if you are like me, you may have asked yourself at some point how to know when to use software desig...