Having a mentor can be a valuable asset in your personal and professional growth.

Why do you need a mentor?

Pair programming is a must practice in our industry. Getting good at pairing is crucial and requires practice. Here is some advice on how to pair efficiently

How to pair efficiently

Mentoring is a vital skill growing into your career in any industry. If you are not mentoring people, you should start doing it as the journey is full of experiences and knowledge.

Why should you start mentoring?

Finding your path in a career can be challenging since many fields have a huge list of underlying roles. Here are some techniques that can help you find yours.

How to find your path in your career

After my first 6 months at Skyscanner, I have decided to write about the lessons I have learnt on this interesting journey.

Lessons learned from working at Skyscanner for the last 6 months.

This is a post on my very first steps in building a startup. I go through my learnings through the last months.

Building my Startup pt.1 - First steps

Have you been struggling with how to stop procrastinating? If so, you’re far from alone. In this blog post I will describe some techniques on how to overcome procrastination.

Win the battle against procrastination

Learning how to learn is a skill, that is not taught in schools. Here are some practices that will help you learn more effectively.

Learning how to learn

Practices and methods on how to approach tough software problems.

How to tackle difficult software problems

Many people struggle to organize themselves. In this blog post, I will show you how I do it and some tips you can use.

Organize your life

A blog post that will give you insights and tips on how to get up to speed in your new role.

How to smash your onboarding process

A blog post about filtering companies based on your values. I explain how to identify red flags so that you can avoid companies that are probably not a match.

Find the best company

A blog about my learnings after 200+ interviews. I explain the type of interviews in the software industry and some tips on how to increase your chance of succeeding.

Software Interviews - Dos & Donts

Being a software consultant for the last two years taught me a lot. This blog describes my experience and the lessons learned throughout that journey.

What I learned after two years of software consultancy

My first experience of being a mentor, and the approach of getting the first software engineering job in the software industry.

Mentoring: Getting the first software engineering job

A high level overview of Azure Logic App, its features, drawbacks, use cases and recommendations.

An overview of Azure Logic App

In this blog post we will build a project with two services, testing them with CDC using Pact + Spring.

CDC testing with Pact + Spring

There is no end to learning in the IT industry. Keeping up with software is certainly a hard task. In this blog post I will explain my approach.

How I keep up with software

In this blog post I will take you through my journey to a company that I was chasing for 5 years since I was an undergrad.

My journey to Codurance

Building a software team is a hard task mainly because there are so many parameters to look for before structuring one, like team size, team type, define roles and responsibilities.

What are the skills that each member of your team must have?

Writing truly Restful APIs is not simple. In this blog post we will build an endpoint that supports filtering, selecting, sorting and pagination using Spring Boot + Spring Data MongoDB.

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Why do you need a mentor?

How to pair efficiently

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