👋🏼👋🏼 Hi there! Marcos here, glad you passed by!

Here I write about what I learned about Software Engineering, Technical Leadership, and Technical Growth.

Nowadays I’m working as a Senior Software Engineer and Tech Lead. I’m a former Software Engineer at CERN. People from Software Engineering, Tech Lead, and Engineering Management roles, from Startups and medium-sized companies, could find this newsletter interesting for their development and growth. Hoping my journey can help yours.

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📝 Why subscribe?

What can you expect from this newsletter? I will share all my experiences, learnings, and growth, accumulated over +20 years, around:

• Technical Leadership.

• Software Engineering and Architecture practices.

• Acceleration and Growth of tech companies.

When you can get all this? 👇🏻

📆 Publishing schedule

I’m committed to releasing a new issue per week, which could be:

• 📖 Some readings.

• 📦 Resources and templates.

• 🎙️Or a podcast episode.

Special breaks:

• August. In August, you should not expect any issues delivered, it’s the summer time to get rest and recharge the energy.

• End of December. During the last 15 days of December, you should not expect any issues delivered

🔖 Best Posts of The Optimist Engineer

Measuring your performance as Tech Lead

Marcos F. Lobo

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July 17, 2024

Measuring your performance is something that, commonly, happens once a year with your manager. During that process, you tell “what you did well” and “what you want to focus on next year” and your manager will do the same.

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Journey to Staff Engineer role - Resources

Marcos F. Lobo

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June 12, 2024

When we’re aiming for a new role, one of the first things we usually do is search for that role on our favorite search engine. At some point, you come across writings from people who either currently hold the role or have previously held it. This is where we find the most insightful information about our most common questions:

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Template Eisenhower Matrix

Marcos F. Lobo

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March 13, 2024

In today’s issue, I want to share with you a tool that I recently met and it’s helping me a lot with my technical responsibilities. Also, I want to share with you a template I’ve made for you, so you can print it and use it or just use it virtually.

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🔎 Where you can find me

I’m living in Spain nowadays, and you get in touch with me on the social networks below:

• LinkedIn

• Twitter/X

From time to time, I’m able to convince conference organizers to let me share my knowledge with people, like in the Codemotion Madrid or DevOpsDays Madrid.