David Simão

The rules of engagement in solid partnership with engineering. The do’s and don’ts as seen from a software developer’s perspective

Reflecting on the common problem of leadership across multiple teams in scale-up organizations

An essay on the role of pull requests and their importance in the software development cycle and what strategies can we use to improve them

A comparison between Docusaurus, Gatsby and Hugo, as blogging frameworks and why I chose to use Hugo for implementing this blog

Excited with all the Web3 and self-hosting hype, I’ve set myself on a mission to self-host this blog on a self-hosted IPFS cluster. Here’s what I learned from it

A classic tale of a team that deluded themselves with the mirage of breaking a monolith into shiny new microservices on a limited budget, understaffed and fast-paced environment

What does it take to excel as a software engineer and what other aspects beyond programming can help us differentiate ?

An overview of some personal experiences on the engineering leadership track and opinionated advice that derived from them

Lessons learned from building a push notification system for a cross-platform mobile application at Truphone