#5 - Impact

Santhos Ramalingam is one of the most talented young engineers I’ve worked with. During our time together at ImmobilienScout Santhos instantly created impact by coming with fresh and useful ideas combined with a deep knowledge of technology. In this episode he joins me to talk about impact. We look at where the great results actually come from.

• 00:00:00 - IT in India vs Europe
• 00:05:20 - Pandemic and Sick Leave
• 00:08:10 - Home Office and Exercise
• 00:09:50 - Turning Older
• 00:11:40 - Mindset of Professional
• 00:15:55 - Mental Toughness
• 00:19:10 - Greenfield vs Brownfield project
• 00:23:10 - Setting Expectations
• 00:25:10 - What is best Practice
• 00:26:40 - Language Choice
• 00:36:32 - Simplicity in Language
• 00:40:10 - General Purpose Languages
• 00:46:05 - JVM
• 00:49:05 - ES Modules
• 00:52:50 - Magic in Languages
• 00:57:10 - Low code Platforms
• 01:06:20 - QA and Unit Tests
• 01:13:32 - Point with Tests
• 01:20:02 - Reaching the moon
• 01:25:02 - Future and Jobs
• 01:29:32 - Entrepreneurship
• 01:35:08 - Risks
• 01:42:02 - FIRE
• 01:47:52 - Focus on what Matters
• 02:01:32 - The Correct Solution

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