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Tito Sarrionandia
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Dec 28, 2021

The senior engineer career hump

As a software engineer approaches or reaches the senior engineer role, the things they need to show to progress further become very different. Many engineers don’t explicitly plan for this, and get stuck at what I call the “experience hump”. Here’s how to move past it. Note: It’s not mandatory…

Software Engineering

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Software Engineering

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Aug 14, 2021

Can individuals write code?

Can individuals write code? I think that your answer to this question will, to a large part, predict your attitude towards software engineers being asked to return to the office for all or some of their working week. …

Remote Working

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Can individuals write code?
Can individuals write code?
Remote Working

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The Startup

·Feb 25, 2021

Improve Your Security By Talking About Gardening

I am convinced that banging on and on about warfare is hurting our ability to make pragmatic, cultural changes that protect our software and our organisations. It’s dangerous to just accept metaphors as a way of describing the world. In many cases, that act of description changes the way you…

Security

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Improve Your Security By Talking About Gardening
Improve Your Security By Talking About Gardening
Security

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Feb 4, 2021

Continuous integration: Pipelines or jobs first?

Recently I found myself wanting to express an opinion about continuous integration pipelines to my team, but I lacked the language to do it. I’ve been searching the web for days now, and asking on Twitter, and I still can’t find any good description of what I’m talking about. …

Software Development

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Continuous integration: Pipelines or jobs first?
Continuous integration: Pipelines or jobs first?
Software Development

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Jan 31, 2021

Why I’ve stopped holding people accountable

EDIT: There are parts of this that I don’t really agree with anymore, I’ve probably mellowed a little overall, but I did turn it into a conference talk that I mostly still stand by. I’m extremely sceptical about the commonplace notions of “accountability” and “responsibility”. I think there is…

Agile

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Why I’ve stopped holding people accountable
Why I’ve stopped holding people accountable
Agile

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Jan 13, 2021

The resilience of mixed seniority engineering teams

A couple of weeks ago I wrote this line in some lessons learned from building a new digital service for the UK Government: I’m extremely proud of how we managed to do that with an unremarkable budget and a team with multiple junior members. It seemed to resonate. A few…

Software Development

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The resilience of mixed seniority engineering teams
The resilience of mixed seniority engineering teams
Software Development

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Jan 3, 2021

Lessons learned from building a government service

Last year, I was fortunate enough to spend some time with MHCLG as the technical lead on a project to replace the ageing Energy Performance of Buildings Register. Kev Keenoy has written a good summary of the work. …

Digital Transformation

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Digital Transformation

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May 13, 2018

It’s not Google Duplex, it’s you

In Asimov’s Robot series, several societies uphold the custom that robots must introduce themselves with the prefix “R”. For example, Daneel Olivaw, the humaniform robot so convincingly lifelike that it can deceive most actual humans, introduces [it/him]self as R. Daneel Olivaw. If you’re not particularly interested in tech ethics, you’ve…

Artificial Intelligence

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Artificial Intelligence

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Jan 6, 2018

What I learned from getting rid of most of my possessions

I travel a lot for work. Last year I traveled in excess of 300 days. For all of that time I was renting a place in central London, and it was a pretty great place. It was a short walk from everything I like to do in London, and I…

Minimalism

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What I learned from getting rid of most of my possessions
What I learned from getting rid of most of my possessions
Minimalism

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Education Reform

·Jul 17, 2015

Was Teach First worth it?

I’ve just finished the last week of my job as a computer science teacher on the Teach First leadership development programme. I won’t be returning to the classroom next year, instead I’ve accepted a position in the software industry. The past two years have undoubtedly been the most difficult of…

Teaching

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Teaching

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Tito Sarrionandia

Tito Sarrionandia

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Head of frontend engineering at Babylon Health. Formerly ThoughtWorks, Made Tech, school teacher.

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