Growing as a software engineer (Interview)

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Gergely Orosz joined Adam for a conversation about his journey as a software engineer. Gergely recently stepped down from his role as Engineering Manager at Uber to pursue his next big thing. But, that next big thing isn’t quite clear to him yet. So, in the meantime, he has been using this break to write a few books and blog more so he can share what he’s learned along the way. He’s also validating some startup ideas he has on platform engineering. His first book is available to read now — it’s called The Tech Resume Inside Out and offers a practical guide to writing a tech resume written by the people who do the resume screening. Both topics gave us quite a bit to talk about.

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Featuring:

• Gergely Orosz – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
• Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X

Show Notes:

• Gergely’s tweet about the pod we did with Spotify about Backstage
• Gergely’s blog
• Book #1: The Tech Resume Inside Out
• Book #2: The Software Engineer’s Guidebook
• My Unforgettable Uber Ride
• Gergely’s Indie Hackers post: 14 days, $14K in sales, 1,000 customers and what worked for me
• Things I’ve learned transitioning from engineer to engineering manager
• The Changelog #415: Spotify’s open platform for shipping at scale
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• Spotify’s open platform for building developer portals

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