May is a month of holiday in Malaysia. Hari Raya is a special day for the Malays, thus the given public holiday. Combo with the labor day, I have a total of 5 days of uninterrupted time to build stuff. Well, not exactly 100% uninterrupted […]
A bit of background. Recently this has been a hot topic among the engineering leads as we talk about recruitment. Some think like this: How all this got started was the trend to make salary transparent. The goal is to help people get their fair […]
I believe this will be a controversial topic to most engineering managers or stakeholders. Nevertheless, having to experience different forms of refactoring in code and process, I like to share some of my thought here. Remove unwanted/redundant code and feature Let’s admit. Most of us […]
According to Wikipedia for the great resignation, the time scale of this event happens around early 2021. Writing this post today, make me a little late into it. But I would like to share my general thought about hiring as an Engineering Manager in Malaysia […]
At the beginning of the year, we heard a lot about “The Great Resignation” trend in the United States. From my end, business was as usual. That is, after about 6 months of lag. I soon realized that our hiring pipeline was getting hard to […]
Despite working from home, it has been an eventful year for me. On top of the usual work, I have started a few initiatives to push myself further. Some are still ongoing, some stopped, and some are reconsidering a restart. What’s changed Here are some […]
The last couple of months has been exciting month that involves winning a couple of hackathon through personal initiative after work hours. In my current company, we have this culture of sharing. And I took the opportunity to share my experience of the virtual hack […]
In recent years, Hackathon/hack week/hack day has been the driving force behind the innovation of the large company. It also serves multi-purpose. 1) Medium for recruitment to find passionate engineers. 2) Timeout and a change of pace from the usual backlogs. 3) Builds culture and […]
In conjunction with organizing an internal Hackweek within our company, I have participated 2 virtual hackathons and submitted 2 projects in the past months. Hackweek FY22.1 Atlassian Codegeist 2021 Since the theme is about building Atlassian’s plugin, this is the expertise I have gained from […]
For context Recently, there is a vulnerability that is found in an on-prem server that is being exploited like a wildfire. If you have not heard about it, feel free to read more about it here. It is also known as CVE-2021-26084 RCE on Confluence […]
