Bharath's blog

Bharath's blog

platformengineering

Strategies for Sustainable Growth of Platforms

This article has been sitting on my desk for quite some time, and I finally managed to finish it after going through the process of building something from scratch and taking it to its full potential three times in my career. Though the technologies, implementation and users are all different,

1:1 Meetings for Maximum Impact

One-on-one meetings are a crucial aspect of effective leadership and employee development. In this article, I share my approach I’ve taken for making the most of one-on-one time with my team members. Putting Team member First: This was an experiment I’ve tried to know what each of my

10 Things I learned Building Platforms

Most of my career has been focused on shipping end customer focused apps which provided me an opportunity to explore various areas of software development in the space of digital products, data engineering, AI/ML, ERP system integrations, API's, cloud and testing. I’ve taken up a challenge for the

Journey from Open API to Dev Portal

My Article has also been Published in Hacker Noon API Economy is taking off exponentially and its every business need to expose their digital services and assets in a secure way. I'll walkthrough in this article how one can take a API-first , design first approach to take into the account,

Volunteered to teach “Agile” course at Library

It all started one day when I was having a chat with manager of local library about what I was doing and how the library focuses of empowering the neighborhood with regular knowledge sharing sessions. He sent my details over to the City Office to complete the formalities. We planned

Hack – It’s Not a Joke

*I wrote this article for Computer Society of India, 12 years back and It's fascinating that every bit of it is very relevant even today. There are something things that not change and I believe fundamentals of Computer Science is one of them. Disclaimer: I’m not a Hacker. From

Amazon fulfillment center Tour Experience

I always used to wonder what goes behind those efficiencies in fulfillment center and trying to meet the ever increasing demand and crunching delivery timelines. I was fortunate to get a chance to visit the nearest Amazon FC located in San Marcos, TX on August 16th, 2019 which is a

A Business fable by Patrick Lencioni

Patrick Lencioni is one of favorite author around team management subject and this article is about his book ‘Getting Naked’. I love his other book on “The Five Dysfunctions of a Team” and specifically his way of writing in terms of business fables. There are very few authors who write