https://yogesh.lonkar.org/tags/career/ Recent content in Career on Yogesh Lonkar Hugo en-IN © lonkar.org Thu, 17 Sep 2026 13:44:39 +0530 https://yogesh.lonkar.org/posts/engineer-chapter-2/ Thu, 30 Jan 2025 20:13:20 +0100 https://yogesh.lonkar.org/posts/engineer-chapter-2/ <p><a href="https://yogesh.lonkar.org/posts/engineer/" >Chapter 1</a> ended in 2017 with a Jenkins plugin and a wish to grow upward instead of sideways. This chapter covers the years since.</p> <h2 id="production-engineer"> Production engineer <a class="heading-link" href="#production-engineer"> <i class="fa-solid fa-link" aria-hidden="true" title="Link to heading"></i> <span class="sr-only">Link to heading</span> </a> </h2> <p>One idea from my production engineering degree that stuck: poka-yoke, mistake-proofing. In college I read it as &ldquo;prevent errors&rdquo;. It took years of platform work to see the real point. You remove the mechanism of mistake so the person can spend their attention on the part of the job that needs it. That&rsquo;s developer experience in one sentence, and I didn&rsquo;t know it till I was doing the job.</p> https://yogesh.lonkar.org/posts/engineer/ Fri, 29 Nov 2024 15:33:37 +0100 https://yogesh.lonkar.org/posts/engineer/ <p>I graduated in 2011, two years later than planned. It didn&rsquo;t bother me then and it doesn&rsquo;t now. People who learn it are surprised, so here is why.</p> <h2 id="the-two-missing-years"> The two missing years <a class="heading-link" href="#the-two-missing-years"> <i class="fa-solid fa-link" aria-hidden="true" title="Link to heading"></i> <span class="sr-only">Link to heading</span> </a> </h2> <p>In the second year of my degree I left to work with computers. Assembling machines and installing pirated Windows was one of the few ways to earn from a computer in Pune then. It paid for smokes and beer. Writing software was more fun than screwing boards into cases, and nobody would pay me to write it without a degree.</p>