What 16 years of software engineering taught me about growth

Estimated reading time: 8 minutes

Key takeaways:

• Technical excellence alone doesn’t make great engineers: writing, community, experimentation, and managing imposter syndrome compound just as much as code quality.
• Document for your future self, not just your team. The engineers who write things down move significantly faster than the ones who don’t.
• Imposter syndrome never disappears, your relationship with it does.

“Learning is not compulsory… neither is survival,”  said American business theorist W. Edwards Deming.

Over the last 16 years, I have worked across three very different worlds of software engineering. These span IT service-based companies in India churning out client projects, product companies in North America obsessing over user metrics, and the chaos of building my own startup after leaving a full-time job.

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