I've interviewed Tejas Kumar last month, and I'm sure it will be valuable here too ⚡️
We spoke about career pathing in tech, AI research, software engineering, and React v19! 🎉
Tejas shares insights from his experiences at Vercel, Spotify, writing a programming book for O'Reilly, and so much more!
👇 Topics Discussed 👇
💼 Fulfillment in one's career.
🏆 Achieving success in what we do.
💻 Starting programming at age 8!
🧠 Learning & passion as a software developer.
🇶🇦 Working and living as a software engineer in Qatar, work culture and relocation to Germany 🇩🇪
🏡 Working remotely, on-site, hybrid as an engineer.
🛣️ Career pathing in tech, software and AI.
⚙️ Scalability and how Spotify built Backstage.io to scale and observe microservices internally.
⏳ How Tejas organizes his day as a software engineer working from home: deep work, flow state, exercise, and work-life balance.
🤖 AI in the tech industry.
✍️ Writing and publishing a programming book for O'Reilly
⚡️ Tejas' upcoming book, ‟AI for full-stack Web Engineers”
⚛️ React 19, upcoming major release.
🚀 The video from GitNation conference that went viral that Tejas speaks about in this interview, and which is the reason why Tejas published his book "Fluent React: Build Fast, Performant, and Intuitive Web Applications": https://lnkd.in/gRbq9vQx
🎧 Tejas often recommends the Latent Space podcast and Slow Productivity book by Dr. Cal Newport.
📺 YouTube Channel https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K3SR37pIzVs
🚀 Get inspired by open-source GitHub projects I’ve built over the past years on my GitHub.