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Alex Aitken

A blog from Alex Aitken about technical leadership and ownership in the JavaScript, TypeScript, and .NET space.

1:1s – Questions

June 28, 2019 By Alex Leave a Comment

When I started my 1:1s a few months ago, I kept asking the same questions over and over. In fact, I found that I wasn’t really learning anything new about my team. So, I want to go over some questions that I’ve experimented with and see what questions you may ask during your 1:1s. Was […]

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1:1s How I Learn to Support

March 5, 2019 By Alex Leave a Comment

Quick intro: I recently switched my career path. I was a tech lead, which basically means that I lead a project but I had no reports, and now I’m an Engineering Manager. As an Engineering Manager, I longer “lead” a project in the technical sense, I am responsible for people. What I want to talk […]

Filed Under: Leadership, Management

Adding a Shared Script for Jenkins

October 1, 2018 By Alex Leave a Comment

Recently, we discovered that we had a lot of duplication in our build scripts. Pretty much the same copy+paste code everywhere (we have a mono-repository). So, it came to me to try and resolve this duplication of logic across our builds (multiple services). For context, we use the declarative pipeline, which for some projects involves […]

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Leading Remotely

September 24, 2018 By Alex Leave a Comment

I went rogue! I did it. I led a team remotely (within the same country, of course). But to be honest, I can’t say too much changed while I was away from the office. It was, as it should be, business as usual. Now, I can’t say I’m an expert on this, because I’ve only […]

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Being a Remote-Enabled Team

September 17, 2018 By Alex Leave a Comment

Being a remote-enabled team doesn’t mean you are remote-first. It means that you’re open to your colleagues occasionally working (or maybe full time) from home (or wherever). Today, I’m going to explain how my team at Careem is a remote-enabled team and what that means for our work and culture. It’s scary Having employees work […]

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How to Give Feedback

September 10, 2018 By Alex 1 Comment

At Careem we like to give feedback as often as possible and as honest as possible. It can be quite a shock for those who are new to the company. You may be confronted over something you’ve done, or you’ll get a shout out at the next company meeting. In this post, I’ll go over […]

Filed Under: Leadership

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Alex is an Engineering Manager currently working for Careem. He is a leader in front-end technologies and team management. Read More…

Recent Posts

  • 1:1s – Questions
  • 1:1s How I Learn to Support
  • Adding a Shared Script for Jenkins
  • Leading Remotely
  • Being a Remote-Enabled Team

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