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Cooperative vs Employment: A Conversation the Community Was Ready to Have
Notes from conversations with RAD-KOP, a Russian cooperative IT community. Not 'here's my pitch' but 'here's where the dialogue took us': a comparison of models, real-world examples, and an honest look at the downsides.
The Value We Create — and Almost Never Keep for Ourselves
In IT we create value every single day: we fix prod, cut risk, clear out the chaos. Yet almost none of us actually owns the result. A look at an uncomfortable paradox — without the drama.
Red Flags in Hiring, Through a Lead's Eyes
Behavioral patterns in candidates I've learned to spot over years of hiring. Not an HR checklist, but the view of a manager who builds teams.
The Shoemaker With No Shoes: How I Rebuilt My Own Resume
For two years I've been fixing other people's resumes — then I opened my own and got depressed. Five things I changed, and why it matters to anyone who has outgrown their old role.
DPUPP on a Weekend: The Kremlin, a Family Release, and Sunday Alerts
A Sunday walk through central Moscow seen through the eyes of an engineer who spent too long working from home. Family as a distributed system, the Kremlin as production, and a quiet thought about why you should step away from the monitor at all.
Toxicity in Tech: How Not to Shrivel Up and Stay in the Game
Toxic teams kill your career faster than a stale résumé ever will. Here is what not to do and what actually works — for both engineers and managers.
Does a Software Engineer Need a Degree If Everything Is Already Online
People call a diploma a fancy coaster: take a couple of courses, learn a language, and you have conquered the peaks. Here is why a solid academic foundation still wins — systems thinking, math, and the skill of digging up knowledge where no guide has been written yet.
Fintech Development: 7 Circles of Hell
An honest guide to what awaits your team when shipping a product to production at a major bank. From hiring to support — every stage is a challenge of its own.
Tech Lead: A New Challenge for the Analyst
A career path from analyst to head of an IT cluster. How to build a team from scratch, which skills you will have to level up, and why knowing how to say "no" matters more than knowing how to say "yes." Based on a proposal for Analyst Days 2024.
IT Conferences for Analysts: A Practitioner's Guide
Why analysts should go to conferences, how to squeeze the most out of them, and which venues are worth your time and money. A rundown of 20+ conferences from the experience of a speaker and the lead of a 2,000+ member community.
A Career in IT (my two cents)
What a career in IT really looks like once you take off the rose-tinted glasses: the drivers of growth, a checklist for picking a direction, and an algorithm for choosing between moving up and moving sideways.
Analysts and Their Many Flavors
Who an analyst actually is in IT and what specializations exist: a tour of 18 kinds of analyst — from business and systems to Data Scientist — plus salary ranges and why the field has real upside.