Career

Closing a chapter

• September 1, 2024

• Career

This is it; the house is mostly empty as I sit in my temporary home office, the living room table. Our Dutch lives are mostly in boxes in a container, and the only things left to go are Bella, our retriever, and me.

The Individual Contributor Path

• June 20, 2024

For most of my early career, I was told the only path up was through management roles. Our market has since evolved, and Staff+ engineering roles are more common and offer us a different path. But what is a Staff/Principal engineer? What do they do? How do they work? Are they just managers who can’t admit it?

The Individual Contributor Path

• March 15, 2024

For most of my early career, I was told the only path up was through management roles. Our market has since evolved, and Staff+ engineering roles are more common and offer us a different path. But what is a Staff/Principal engineer? What do they do? How do they work? Are they just managers who can’t admit it?

Panel: Road to Seniority

• May 25, 2019

We are all aware that ‘senior’ has different value and meaning from company to company, lets try to lay some foundation: ideas, concepts, terms & expectations that are generally expected.

Need a Lead? Here's my story.

• April 5, 2016

• Career

After 2,5 years working with Symbid, our paths must now diverge. After having contributed as a partner company and then joined to build the in-house development team that would later form the base of Symbid’s Product Development team, and finally push it over into a fintech company, sadly we part ways before achieving our long dreamed and much schemed plans.

Treading the PHPath

• September 15, 2012

If you are a great developer, its no use unless other people know this as well. This talk is a guide/logbook of how to take your career into the next level, take advantage of Open Source and the PHP Community to grow as a professional.

Trilhando o caminho PHP 2.5

• December 2, 2011

Construir uma carreira nunca é uma tarefa fácil e cada caminho tem suas trilhas e atalhos. As vezes é necessario contar com um GPS para que você possa subir cada vez mais na comunidade PHP. Uma carreira baseada em PHP possui várias placas ao longo do caminho, vamos ver algumas destas escolhas e truques que você pode sempre ter “nas mangas” para deixar de ser apenas mais um desenvolvedor.

Problem solving technique #1: Taking a mental break

• February 4, 2011

• Development, PHP

Developers are modern day artists whose masterpieces are not hung on walls but stretched out thin on web servers all over the world, yes that is very poetic, but I really try to look at developers as artists and puzzle solvers. To become better developers your skill-set must include creativity and problem solving skills and of course a artistic touch.

Trilhando o Caminho PHP

• December 3, 2008

Construir uma carreira encima do PHP é um caminho cheio de galhos. Aprenda como não ser mais um no mercado e se prepare para a ZCE

A new beginning

• April 16, 2008

• Career

I had never really understood the real reason to have a blog and write articles, until my good friend Leonardo França motivated me into creating this blog. Quickly I realized that because of the blog I begun once more to learn new stuff, mainly to be able to write new articles.