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anand s

(He/him)

Staff Software Engineer at LyftSeattle, WA, USA Β· Software Engineering

Experience

Lyft

Education

Virginia Tech

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⭐️Why I mentor

Practice Coaching

Tech Lead for Production Infrastructure at Lyft. I lead the following teams - Compute, Datastores, Streaming, Capacity management, Observability and Networking

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🌱 Technical career paths

πŸ’° Negotiating a promotion/offer

πŸ›°οΈ Working remotely for the first time

🐣 Becoming a people manager

πŸ—ΊοΈ The technical or people track?

πŸ’« Breaking into tech

πŸ‘€ Dealing with imposter syndrome

🎭 Mock interviewing

πŸ–Œ Resume and portfolio review

🌟 Preparing for the next level

πŸƒ Getting the most out of my internship

Recommendations

Here’s what Merit users have said about anand

Harsh Khilawala
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University of Tokyo - Earthquake Research Institute (ERI)

Research Intern

Sep 4th 2023

Anand is thoughtful, intelligent, well-informed, pragmatic, quick, and gives practical and actionable advice. I really enjoyed speaking with him and am grateful for our chat!

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Patricia P

World Bank

Experimental Researcher

Sep 5th 2023

Anand was awesome. He helped me change my perspective on a lot of things and was very frank about the software development field and how to get a job.

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Kaju Sarkar
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Skribh

Software Engineer

Oct 27th 2023
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