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After my visit to one of the oldest perfumeries in France, I came across a compelling article on How AI and brain science are helping perfumiers create fragrances. I distill some of my experience and the article in this blog.

In this blog, I aim to distill my reflections of The Alignment Problem by Brian Christian, collating my favorite quotes and personal notes to explore the far-reaching implications of artificial intelligence in our world today.

Through the last 3 years of remote-work and traveling, I have learned what helps me work effectively, progress in my career, continue to grow my skills while doing what I love, traveling and fostering cross-cultural understanding around the world. I share some strategies to maintain efficiency, establish effective communication and foster a productive work-life balance.

I was recently invited to the InfoBip Shift Miami Conference that took place on US soil for the first time! Read more on my key takeways from the sessions I attended.

Have you ever stopped to think that amidst all the noise these days, that some of it may be designed to divert our attention from the real overarching issue - real world issues like climate change.

Sharing some hopes and concerns after recent releases in more mainstream AI applications and products. Yes pretty scary yet still exciting.

Did you know in the world of software, the terms "application" and "system" were often used interchangeably? I have been going back to the fundamentals to learn more about systems architecture and wanted to relay some of my learnings and thoughts.

Have you been discouraged lately by the layoffs and volatility that are still happening in the industry this year? Let me help alleviate that by sharing some insights I came across on the current state of the job market.

I recently finished Algorithms to Live By and touch on some key takeways for example like how to optimize decision making, memory management and more.

Having just come back from a recent vacation where I didn’t work for over 10 days nor was it a workation or a remote working trip, I wanted to share some thoughts on vacation policies and what I recently learned.

In my previous post, I highlighted the benefits of working for a startup, especially if you are early in your career. In this post I share some of my tips on how to land a software engineering job at a startup.

Recently read an insightful thread about how Midjourney scaled with an 11-person team in just a couple of years and wanted to share some of my experience working at startups and why you should consider it to accelerate your career.

Recently, I have been seeing a lot of debate on Twitter around the extent to which AI should hold a moral standard or conduct censorship and I wanted to add some of my own thoughts.

I've been working more with AWS cloud services to implement features for our infrastructure the last several months and thought to do a bit of a write-up on my workflow.

I share my non-linear path into tech, how you should stay curious and adaptable, and how best to take your learning into your own hands while job searching.

I often get ask how I find the time to do what seems like "so many things" in my life? The answer is definitely not single-faceted.

There is really no better time to start a startup than now. We are at the new dawn of AI breakthrough.

Lately there has been a lot of "moving fast and breaking things at work. Read on for some of my thoughts below on the mantra.

I recently had a task to add a specific endpoint for a field. It got me down the rabbit hole of exploring different patterns for API design.

I didn’t want to necessarily jump on the hype train on writing about ChatGPT just because it was trending and all the rage. I wanted some time to test out the tool and form my own thinking and questions.

For those digital nomads or aspiring nomads, do you yearn to immerse yourself more in local cultures and languages when you travel to places?

It’s 2023 in tech, heck all industries for that matter - can we please stop calling essential human skills to have in the workplace “soft” skills.

I recently wrapped a project on provisioning infrastructure using Terraform and thought to do a little recap of my learnings.

What are your thoughts on levelling up or building in private or in public?

I have worked across Europe and Asia and thought it might be valuable to share how I manage my hours while working remote in European and Asian timezones with teammates primarily in the the US.

I’ve been recrafting some of my technical talks and workshops lately so I thought to share some of the steps that I take to prepare for them.

I recently had a conversation with someone I met at a tech event discussing creativity in the backend and frontend. He was of the mind that backend is more creative.

Visited and remote worked in the unique and historical port city, Porto, Portugal just before the end of last year. It was one of the more memorable places I’ve been to in Europe.

Last year, one of my goals was to round out my skills as a developer to learn more fullstack. Read more on how I'm learning more back-end.

I often get the question how I digital nomad as a parent? Well there is no real hack.

In my last 1:1 with my manager, we discussed the volatilty of what is happening in the industry currently with layoffs.

Have you ever thought about working remotely on a cruise? Read about my first experience working remotely on the Royal Caribbean cruise ship.

Thinking of pivoting into a software development career? Do you wonder if you should go to a bootcamp or go down the self-teaching route?

Since I designed my website, I thought it might be good to make a quick intro on my background, my experience and my plans for upcoming content!

Attended the world-class Web Summit in the charismatic and vibrant capital of Portugal, Lisbon. Read more on my highlights and takeaways from the sessions I attended!

Delivered a talk on Harnessing the Power of GraphQL

After two months of interviewing, I accepted an offer at a cloud marketplace platform company to help accelerate revenue in cloud marketplaces.

Learn how to build and set up an application using Next.js for the front-end, Strapi for the back-end, with deployment to Vercel

Learn how to scaffold a React app using the Create React App setup along with adding TailwindCSS as a styling utility library

Create a Jamstack application with Commerce.js and Next.js.

A workshop written for the Frontend Foxes React curriculum.

A Netlify guest blog on how to create a fully fledged Jamstack commerce store with Commerce.js, Next.js and deployed to Netlify.

An appendix of some commonly used commands to know

In this blog, I outline some note to selves I have been accumulating since starting out as a Front-end Engineer.

Redux is a library that helps to manage state in your React project. I walk through some technical steps on how to get started with Redux.

This blog introduces the current ecommerce landscape, what headless commerce is and how to get started on integrating commerce into your application.

This is a technical tutorial on how to create a product catalogue page using Commerce.js and Vue.js.