Resources

These are some of the best resources, courses and newsletters I have come across and use personally. I will be adding to this list as I come across more useful things!

Reading List

• The Manager's Path - By Camille Fournier - A great read for any level of engineer from junior through to CTO. Many digestible and relevant case studies that are relevant to all levels.

• The Tech Resume Inside Out - By Gergly Orosz - Completely changed the way I do my CV as well as read through CVs when I hire.

• Clean Code - By Robert C. Martin - Currently reading

To Read List

• Grokking Algorithms: An illustrated guide for programmers and other curious people - By Aditya Y. Bhargava

• Clean Architecture - By Robert C. Martin

• An Elegant Puzzle: Systems of Engineering Management - By Will Larson

Courses

• https://www.udemy.com/user/stephane-maarek/ - If you ever want to attain any AWS certifications

• https://www.udemy.com/user/sgslo/ - Stephen's courses are digestible and well explained. Specifically:

  • https://www.udemy.com/course/go-the-complete-developers-guide/ - I had to ramp up my Golang knowledge quickly as I started a new EM role using Golang and I had 0 experience

  • https://www.udemy.com/course/microservices-with-node-js-and-react/ - Great intro to microservices using Kubernetes and Docker

• https://www.udemy.com/course/the-complete-web-development-bootcamp/ - The very first web dev course I took

• https://www.udemy.com/course/mern-ecommerce/ - Piecing together a MERN ecommerce app. Helpful to see it all come together

• https://www.coursera.org/specializations/product-management - This was the first course I took when I got my first PM role. It really gave me a great hands on experience as a PM that I took into my job and still use till this day as an EM

Newsletters and Blogs

• https://newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/ - Gergely has some of the best written and informative articles out there about the Tech industry from a software engineer's perspective.
• https://larahogan.me/ - Her articles and guides really helped me find my management style when I first became an EM
• https://blog.bytebytego.com/ - System design and explanation of technical concepts in simple language
• https://www.productplan.com/blog/ - I spent most of my time on this blog when I first became a PM. Had a lot of guides and articles on how to do the day to day work as a new PM
• https://insights.toshotrajanov.com/ - A collection of articles delivered on a weekly basis aimed at leaders in tech
• https://growth.design/ - A well thought-out walkthrough of popular apps and platforms that explains their UX decisions and the impact it has