Alex Aitken

Month: October 2020

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Embrace Your Inner Engineer

By Alex AitkenPublished 8 mins read

Leadership

When I first started at Traveloka, I realised that there are some good engineering practices, but other practices could be improved. It’s only through this crisis that we could discover how to embrace our inner engineers through working from home. One of the first things I noticed was missing was a lack of centralised documentation. […]

Roundtable: What makes a great Engineer?

By Alex AitkenPublished 4 mins read

Coding Roundtable

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 yourself or your peers? What was interesting is that there is no standard accepted definition or trait. Everyone had their own unique perspective and thoughts on who they would […]