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Skay

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Dad, Husband and someone who loves his coffee very dearly. My most recent experience has been working as an Engineering Manager building products for start-ups. I play the musical keyboard for fun.

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Why work at a Startup and What to expect?

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Nov 5, 2020 10 min read 180 views

Introduction This is an article based on my experience working with startups for 4+ years. I have previously worked with enterprises and product companies, but with startups, the kind of unique experience of having both creative freedom and increased...

Why work at a Startup and What to expect?

What is Technical Debt?

Nov 28, 2020 8 min read 297 views

What is Technical Debt? I would like to simply define Technical debt as the actions taken by the engineering team to expedite delivery for a piece of functionality that often needs to be refactored at a later point in time. However, there's no one si...

How to provide estimates as a Junior Developer?

Nov 13, 2020 7 min read 1.7K views

Introduction I recently interacted with a friend who had just started out as a developer and she told me that she found it really hard to provide estimates against the user stories assigned to her. We had an interesting conversation following that an...

How to provide estimates as a Junior Developer?

A Detailed overview of NPM, Registry, CLI & it's related Components

Nov 2, 2020 15 min read 356 views

Introduction In this article, we will look at an overview of what NPM is. When we usually run 'npm install', we know that certain packages are being created inside the 'node_modules' folder. Let us look at what they mean and what role they play in or...

A Detailed overview of NPM, Registry, CLI & it's related Components

The React Ecosystem

Oct 30, 2020 8 min read 460 views

Introduction When I started learning React, there was a huge debate on whether React is a library or a framework. While I assumed React to be a framework, since, it was always compared with the likes of Vue or Angular, it is actually a JavaScript lib...

Why you should choose to learn 'React'?

Oct 27, 2020 6 min read 1.5K views

Introduction I have been working with the React library for a while now and the more I understand it, the more I'm in awe of the library. In this article, I wanted to share my thoughts on why I think React is one of the most popular JavaScript frame...