Jordan Krey — Software engineer with 15+ years of experience building enterprise and startup platforms, sharing insights on career growth, leadership, impostor syndrome, and the people skills engineers need to own and advance their careers.
9 articles from this blog
A developer's review of Satya Nadella's book 'Hit Refresh', focusing on leadership lessons and cultural change at Microsoft.
A developer's personal story about learning the critical importance of unit testing while refactoring a complex financial calculation library.
A guide for engineers on how to actively listen, think critically, and extract value from company meetings to understand their impact on work.
A software engineer argues that understanding business operations is crucial for career growth and making a greater impact.
A software engineer shares practical advice for managing stress and handling on-call production support incidents effectively.
A guide for developers on managing project stakeholders and communication to stay focused on coding while keeping everyone informed.
Explores the concept of defensive programming, its challenges, and practical resources to write more resilient code against unknown failures.
A guide for software engineers on handling project estimation requests, offering strategies for bottom-up and top-down approaches.
A guide for developers on effectively working from home, covering occasional and regular remote work arrangements, discipline, and communication strategies.
