Articles tagged developer-advocate
Long Story Short: I Found My Place Between Code and Community
Taylor Swift once said, “Sometimes walking out is one thing that will find you the right thing.” That’s probably what happened to me. During my engineering days, all I ever wanted was to be a backend engineer, write code all day, use dark mode for IDEs, and sip coffee. And it all happened, I started as a software developer focused on shipping features, debugging all night, and building new features again. However, something felt incomplete,...
How to Achieve Massive Productivity at Work
“Productivity is all about efficiency and planning.” – Mahdi Yusuf, Iterate 2018 Like most developers, I love getting shit done. My best days are when I feel like I’ve been massively productive. When the Stormpath team joined Okta in February 2018, it was a tough transition at first. I’d started to get into the flow of writing blog posts about Stormpath’s SDKs and had a bunch queued up. But Okta didn’t have SDKs like Stormpath,...