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I’ve just published my newest Medium post, which reflects on my past two years as a software engineer in Commercial Real Estate. I explore the complex nature of the industry and what it means for engineers. #CRE #Technology #SoftwareEngineering #TechInnovation #CareerGrowth

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OPTECH is just around the corner and I'm looking forward to diving into conversations around digital marketing, proptech, and the future of integrations. 🔥 If you’ll be there, let’s connect and share insights on the current challenges and trends in the multifamily world. Drop me a message to schedule a time to chat! 📩

Conversations are a two way street, and today I appreciate two old colleagues now working in customer organizations for meeting up with me, and changing my thinking. The first one helped me solve a problem I had with my legacy materials. For 18 years, I have shared material about testing with a Creative Common -attribution license, and while I work through this set of assets to make them available logistically, I was torn with separating the past versions (CC-BY) and enhanced ones (copyright CGI). I realized that I have now location to leave the legacy with. If I would do something different than this testing this, I have two startup products I want to build. One on software metrics that I am *certain* CGI would support wholeheartedly, and one on conferences and connections. I recognize they are parked for a good reason. The second one told me they learned from me that testing is important. It is. Absolutely. The insight of *what of me* delivers that message in a way that someone remembers it 20 years later excites me. It impacts how I want to show up for work today, showing the work is important. I still live up to my belief of testing: Never be bored. It really should not be even a risk with this competence area. After 4 months of meeting people, I have met a few. I appreciate the encouragement the organization has on pushing me to people, and just hope that the two way street truly holds both ways. I believe it does. Thanks for sliding into my DMs to make the connections. <3

Lots of chatter around why more software founders aren’t pursuing hard tech initiatives. It’s a totally different ballgame given technical/engineering risks, navigating regulatory, team composition, fundraising, time horizon, etc. Ideally, founders should want to solve the hardest problems. However, most founders just aren’t wired to compete in the hard tech arena. And that’s fine. This is how we avoid a bubble. The right people working on the right problems (founder-market fit).

At Redocly we're launching four new products in May. Here are some fun facts about the compound probability of success. If you have four projects and they each have any 80% chance of success, what are the odds that they all succeed? ~41% chance they all are successful. How can you leverage that knowledge to help increase the odds of overall success? I've gone deep into the rabbit hole for the past few years with a few key observations. 1. Minimize cross-project dependencies. 2. When dependencies do arise, never schedule them for parallel development. 3. Pat yourself on the back every time you follow rule 1 and 2. 4. Kick yourself in the ___ (back?) every time you don't follow rule 1 and 2.

What a whirlwind 24 hours!* 8am: Make kids’ lunches, herd them to school 9:30: Uber to airport Noon: Fly to San Francisco 3 pm: 4.5 hour meeting about the future of web performance, the industry, strategy and market opportunities. 7:30: back to SFO 10 pm: Fly home to Vancouver 2 am: Head hits the pillow 9am: Host our first webinar about site speed and composable architecture. Interspersed with all of that is client email, team check-ins, writing a statement of work for a new customer… Some consistent themes come up throughout: - There is no clear owner of, and therefore buyer for “web performance” within most companies. - This makes selling services and SaaS in this space tricky, as “the buyer” could be: The CTO or maybe the VP of E-commerce … well often the CMO But occasionally the CEO And don’t forget the SRE team. … you get it. No one is Accountable But everyone is Responsible And everyone’s metrics are affected And therefore bonuses And therefore lives At the same time, I’m more encouraged than ever that we’re on to something big, and that empowering all of these roles to move the needle, while embedding a culture of performance, is a huge opportunity. *Most days don’t look like this and I’m not condoning hustle culture! Today I have “nap” in my calendar. Balance.

From Design to Deployment: Enhancing the Booking App with Automated Testing In this project, I optimized the Booking App's performance, focusing on search and reservation workflows. Leveraging my experience as a Software Engineer, I developed advanced automated tests and conducted load assessments to ensure seamless peak-time operation. Integrating these tests into the CI/CD pipeline enhanced the app's efficiency and reliability. My work was crucial in delivering a user-friendly, high-performing application, highlighting my expertise in software engineering. 😊 "This project was developed by Berar Daniel Elisei."