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How I built a tech blog/newsletter, created courses/YouTube videos, spoke at conferences/podcasts and mentored others all while working a full time job at fast paced startups and BigTech.
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Senior Engineering Traits: Come with solutions not problems!
Why being a complainer at work; does not really work in your favor; especially when communicating to leadership.
 • Gaurav Singh
How to run and build your own MCP servers for AI Agents
Learn how to add MCP servers into your AI workflows and build one using Python SDK, and inspect them when required.
 • Gaurav Singh
Unpacking Agent skills and AI Coding Agents on CLI
We unpack what AI Coding Agents on CLI look like with GHC CLI and dive deeper into Agent skills and how to create an Agent
 • Gaurav Singh
Senior Engineering Traits: High agency and ownership
Taking ownership of a hard problem space and driving projects forward are key traits that separates a high agency senior engineer from others. In this…
 • Gaurav Singh
Senior engineering traits: Be specific and clear
Have you been in meetings observing a standout software engineer? What skills or traits do they usually exhibit? Let’s unpack three most important…
 • Gaurav Singh
Managing up as a Software Engineer
Learn the subtle art of helping your manager, manage you better and in the process create a win win situation for the both of you.
 • Gaurav Singh
Stop Forgetting: How a Work Journal Fuels Your Software Engineering Career
How should a software engineer go about structurally capturing their contributions and impact and why does it matter?
 • Gaurav Singh
Your playbook to onboard well on a new team
How should you go about onboarding to a new team? What tactics make sense. I help break down all this and more in a 6 week journey.
 • Gaurav Singh
Good habits for Software Engineers
“I’m not a great programmer; I’m just a good programmer with great habits.” - Kent Beck
 • Gaurav Singh
automation hacks
automation hacks
I simplify engineering productivity by helping you scale automation, navigate AI tools, and level up your career using 14 years of hard-earned lessons.
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