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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…

Feb 8 • Gaurav Singh

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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…

Feb 2 • Gaurav Singh

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January 2026

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.

Jan 25 • Gaurav Singh

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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?

Jan 11 • Gaurav Singh

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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.

Jan 3 • Gaurav Singh

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October 2025

Good habits for Software Engineers

“I’m not a great programmer; I’m just a good programmer with great habits.” - Kent Beck

Oct 5, 2025 • Gaurav Singh

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July 2025

How i got “that” job at Microsoft

What does the interview process look like at Microsoft India for a Senior engineer? What tips and approaches work well. In this blog, I’ll breakdown my…

Jul 9, 2025 • Gaurav Singh

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June 2025

💰 How to negotiate your tech job salary

Many candidates leave money on the table by either not negotiating or doing it in a suboptimal way; don’t be that person.

Jun 22, 2025 • Gaurav Singh

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🚀 Ace your QA Tech interview

How does the tech interview for a QA or SDET leader look in 2025? What type of interviews are conducted, and what strategies could help you land your…

Jun 9, 2025 • Gaurav Singh

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May 2025

🗃️ Unboxing Github Copilot Agent mode

We’ll use GitHub Copilot Agent mode to build a developer productivity feature for analysing failing test stack traces and grasp the nuances as we vibe…

May 5, 2025 • Gaurav Singh

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February 2025

How to run LLMs locally ⤵️ with Ollama

Setup Ollama on docker, run Llama3.2 and deepseek-r1 models locally, chat with open web UI, and use CLI/API, all in 30 mins with the privacy of your…

Feb 25, 2025 • Gaurav Singh

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Summary of deep dive into LLMs like ChatGPT from Andrej Karpathy ⚡️

We often fear the unknown, because we just don't know. Often the simplest thing we can do is to begin anywhere and learn!

Feb 21, 2025 • Gaurav Singh