How to join a team and succeed as a new software engineer — Joining a new team as a software engineer can be daunting. There is so much to learn in such a short period of time. The pressure can be high and deadlines for feature releases are expected to be met before you even begin. Having worked on many different teams in…

How to improve your sprints and common rookie mistakes to avoid — A Story On Sprint days we reflect on our accomplishments (or lack thereof) for the previous 2 weeks. It’s about 20 minutes before we jump on zoom and share our thoughts and reflect. I look at our board. …

How to make passive income, boost your resume, and generate interest. — I first started writing articles to boost my resume and document some interesting projects I was working on. After gaining some modest success documenting my pet projects I thought “why not get paid too”? My results from the past year Since I became a Medium Partner Program contributor in June, 2020 I’ve made about $200. That…

How I went from a non-STEM major to DevOps engineer at a Fortune 100 company — Many of my engineering colleagues are surprised to hear that I have a bachelor’s degree in philosophy. Those on my team with STEM degrees often tell me it's an advantage to have a non-STEM degree. But the path to becoming a DevOps Engineer wasn’t a short one, and I made…

Automate the deployment and execution of a Python function without worrying about package size, execution time, or portability — What’s better than Serverless? Serverless is all the buzz these days and for good reason. Serverless is a simple, yet powerful cloud resource to execute function calls without worrying about the underlying infrastructure. …

Modernizing web application development and deployment — Cloud is here to stay and more and more developers are seeking ways to effectively incorporate the cloud. Whether you are a startup recognizing limitations of your on-premise hardware and local machines or a large enterprise curious about how to slowly offload on-prem workloads, this tutorial will be insightful. I…

Trading strategy, resources, and advice from someone who has done it before. — Having trouble thinking of a strategy? Not sure which APIs and packages to use? Don’t want to reinvent the wheel? I built a stock day trading program (github repo) from scratch and wanted to share some helpful resources as well as some advice on how to get started. I know…

I wrote a program that automates the buying and selling of stocks — Abstract I wrote a program that automates the buying and selling of stocks. I used Python and a Robinhood API wrapper called robin_stocks to build the day trading algorithm. Full disclaimer: this is not meant to represent any financial advice. Any investments you make using the algorithm or strategy below is…