Dev Principles | Gopi Krishna Lakkepuram | Substack

As a software engineer, you might wonder what route you should take in your career — specialize in one area or become a generalist who knows a bit about everything but can easily switch technologies and frameworks. Let's take a closer look at the pros and cons of each option and…

Gopi Krishna Lakkepuram

Nov 17, 2022

Being a techie-MBA and a former student ambassador for ISB, a question that I frequently get asked is if a management degree is relevant to a techie, and if it is, in what ways.

Gopi Krishna Lakkepuram

Oct 31, 2022

From succeeding at coding to succeeding at your career. Practical and easy steps you can take starting today.

Gopi Krishna Lakkepuram

Oct 14, 2022

How building your identity is the first step to realizing a successful career.

Gopi Krishna Lakkepuram

Oct 22, 2022

Often, you tangle yourself in the things from the past, making it hard to focus on being forward-looking. Whether it is your investment into a college…

Gopi Krishna Lakkepuram

Oct 17, 2022

Let me start with an example. Early in my career, I worked on a project that helped combine many SQL databases and decommissioned roughly half of the…

Gopi Krishna Lakkepuram

Oct 11, 2022

How soft skills make a world of difference in the way you grow at your career, and why it matters.

Oct 1, 2022

And just like potato chips, tutorials too, have an adverse effect of excessive consumption landing us in a “tutorial hell”. What is “tutorial hell…

Gopi Krishna Lakkepuram

Sep 28, 2022

Why do some developers grow faster than others? Is it because they code better? Mostly, yes. But — do all the developers who code just as well grow just…

Sep 13, 2022

Dev Principles

Make the most of your software developer career, and grow much faster than your peers! Super relevant for aspiring 10x engineers who want to change the world with software.

Dev Principles

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