Nikolay Stoitsev
Nikolay Stoitsev is a software engineer at Uber where he builds scalable and fault-tolerant backend distributed systems. He is also a teaching assistant at Sofia University in Sofia, Bulgaria. The projects he is working on allow 3 million people around to world to earn money on their own schedule.
3 lessons on effective communication for engineers
Effective communication is one of the most important skills we need. It greatly improves our productivity. And multiplies the positive impact that we have on the products we build and the people we work with. In this talk, we are going to explore three lessons on better communication. First, we’ll start with key principles for building trust and good relationships with the people around us. Then, we’ll see why and how to manage expectations. And we’ll explore how requirements facilitation can make our work easier. We are also going to see how to apply code reviews to our communication and scale it to amplify our impact. And most importantly, we’ll go over some real-world examples of how to apply these lessons in our everyday work to become better engineers.