Career

Many people start solo projects, but only a few can sustain them for long.

After 13 years, I finally left OOCL, the first company where I worked as a permanent staff. I started as an Assistant Technical Analyst (equivalent to SWE I). I had been climbing the engineering ladder for years and became an Engineer Manager in 2020, leading a product team. Last year, I planned to move to the UK to seek better opportunities. After spending over a half year experimenting with almost everything I’ve learned in Agile while delivering a product satisfying the stakeholders, I told my manager it was time to move on. ...

“Do you code during your leisure time?” the consultant asked my team while coaching us towards the Agile journey over 6 years ago. “Coding is fun,” the consultant continued, “I code a lot during the weekend.” As a software developer, coding is our daily job. We’re already tired of facing the computer and the console. If we code during our leisure time, it looks like we can’t rest and leave the “daily job” on the table. ...