Cosmin Bratu

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Stop Telling Me You Shipped

It's been a minute, right? A lot has happened in the last couple of years, both in the world and at a personal level. AI is everywhere now, hell, my team is building AI at scale 😄 I was considering whether to use AI at least to clean up

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Stop Telling Me You Shipped

Own your own development

One of the things that I keep seeing in both engineers and managers is a lack of ownership over their careers. Everyone (almost) wants to be promoted, have a bigger scope, and move further in their careers, but it's shocking how few realize just how much of this

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Own your own development

The RTO Wave Of 2023

One of the hottest topics at the beginning of this year is undoubtedly returning to office policies. In my previous article, I mentioned being torn on the RTO trend and advocated for flexibility from both employees and companies. That's a bit too reductive though - the topic itself

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The RTO Wave Of 2023

Navigating 2023 in Tech

I've been meaning to write this for a while now, but I've been caught in... you know, the unprecedented economic conditions that seem to have affected just about everyone these days, especially those of us working in tech. And that's what I want to

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Navigating 2023 in Tech

So you want to be an engineering manager?

After a few years as a software engineer, I was contemplating what direction to take my career in. In my mind, there were two options - manager or technical architect. I know architect is a vague term, but for me it represented the pinnacle of technical growth, someone that designs

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So you want to be an engineering manager?