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Alex Aitken

Technical and Engineering Leadership, Coaching, and Mentorship

Embrace Your Inner Engineer

October 23, 2020 By Alex Leave a Comment

When I first started at Traveloka, I realised that there are some good engineering practices, but other practices could be improved. It's …

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Roundtable: What makes a great Engineer?

October 16, 2020 By Alex Leave a Comment

Recently I had a roundtable discussion with my engineers on what makes a great engineer. What are the traits that you would like to see in …

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Leading in Uncertain Times

May 22, 2020 By Alex Leave a Comment

Unfortunately, the world has gone a bit upside down over the last few months. We've seen countless layoffs across many different industries …

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1:1s – Don’t Follow my Advice

February 18, 2020 By Alex Leave a Comment

Last year, I wrote a post after about 6 months being a manager of a rather large team (two pizzas would definitely not be enough to feed …

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6 Things to do when training Engineers to be Managers

February 13, 2020 By Alex Leave a Comment

I was recently given the opportunity to train an engineer in my team to take over my role. This engineer volunteered to become a people …

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1:1s – Questions

June 28, 2019 By Alex Leave a Comment

When I started my 1:1s a few months ago, I kept asking the same questions over and over. In fact, I found that I wasn't really learning …

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1:1s How I Learn to Support

March 5, 2019 By Alex Leave a Comment

Quick intro: I recently switched my career path. I was a tech lead, which basically means that I lead a project but I had no reports, and …

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Adding a Shared Script for Jenkins

October 1, 2018 By Alex Leave a Comment

Recently, we discovered that we had a lot of duplication in our build scripts. Pretty much the same copy+paste code everywhere (we have a …

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Leading Remotely

September 24, 2018 By Alex Leave a Comment

I went rogue! I did it. I led a team remotely (within the same country, of course). But to be honest, I can't say too much changed while I …

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About the author

Alex is an AVP of Engineering currently working at Bukalapak. He is a leader in full-stack technologies. Read More…

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Recent Posts

  • Embrace Your Inner Engineer
  • Roundtable: What makes a great Engineer?
  • Leading in Uncertain Times
  • 1:1s – Don’t Follow my Advice
  • 6 Things to do when training Engineers to be Managers

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  • Roundtable
  • Strategy

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