A Developer for Life with Raja

In this conversation, Raja, a coach at PM Power, who likes to be known as a lifelong programmer shares his journey into the world of software and the lessons he learnt and his view on How he was inspired by two of his teachers to learn programming His liking for experiments that kept him interested in IT The transition from an individual contributor to working in teams How he would like to be associated with only one role : a programmer His surprise, when he took up employment after being an entrepreneur, to see designations and very hard delineation of responsibilities by roles His views on the titles on people’s visiting cards Whether he has a ‘Raja technique or Raja methodology’ His views on ‘super specialization’ that many developers prefer, to work only on the server side or on the client side etc and who should own the value chain The power of the concept of ‘mock’s and ‘stub’s How an explicit approach can help in improving team productivity An analogy of a carnatic musicians in a concert having respect for each other on the concept of respect for each other The secret sauce of delivering high quality software is the respect for each other in a team How effective ideas can be simple and can come from anyone in the team, not necessarily senior in terms of experience His advice on choosing a technical or managerial path for one’s career Writing single intent code that progressively evolves Raja would like to be recognized as a programmer since 1993 having extensive experience in architecting and implementing object-oriented and distributed systems. He has created applications for people to collaborate. He preaches and practices Clean Coding Techniques. His profile on the PM Power site is at: https://pm-powerconsulting.com/experts/raja-subramaian/ His LinkedIn profile is at: https://www.linkedin.com/in/raja-subramanian-kamakshi-iyer-87aa7a54/ He can also be found on YouTube at: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC-D08_UMQN5fM4rLx2Q7JOg