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Alex Aitken

Technical and Engineering Leadership, Coaching, and Mentorship

Interviewing as an Engineering Leader

January 30, 2025 By Alex Leave a Comment

I've been through my fair share of engineering interviews over the past few years. I've looked at large companies and smaller start-ups like …

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Managing Low Performers

January 23, 2025 By Alex Leave a Comment

It's hard when you have someone sandbagging your team. The underperformer is dragging everyone down with their performance - but it's also …

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Getting Docker, React, .NET Core, Postgres, and Nginx Playing Nice

August 14, 2024 By Alex Leave a Comment

I wanted to write a short article on how to get all four components working so you don't need to install a bunch of libraries on your …

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What Makes a Good Software Engineering Manager?

August 8, 2024 By Alex Leave a Comment

We've considered what we value as an engineering manager (or leader). How can you do performance appraisals without a concrete framework for …

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“Am I There Yet?” Said an Engineer

July 19, 2024 By Alex Leave a Comment

How do you know if you're ready to switch careers and become an engineering manager? That question has been asked often since I made the …

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The Power of Communication

October 30, 2023 By Alex Leave a Comment

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Recently, I had a small debate with other leaders on the impact of communication and its role across the team. We debated that repeating …

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Product Engineering Strategy

October 19, 2023 By Alex Leave a Comment

An engineering strategy goes beyond your OKRs (if that's what you use for goal setting). It goes into where you want the organization to be …

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Scaling Innovation

August 21, 2023 By Alex Leave a Comment

It's been a long time since I sat down to write out my thoughts. Over the past couple of years, I've been working on my MBA. I successfully …

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

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