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Gopi Krishna

Gopi Krishna

Work For An Identity, Not A Job

How building your identity is the first step to realizing a successful career. Good jobs give you a lot to brag about — The high salary, benefits and certainly the company’s name. After all, the likes of FAMANG maintain a status that makes their employees feel better about themselves than
By Gopi Krishna Aug 6, 2022
Stop Living in the Past

Stop Living in the Past

Often, you tangle yourself in the things from the past, making it hard to focus on being forward-looking. Whether it is your investment into college education that isn’t flowing into work, or a previous job experience that is irrelevant in a new role — hanging on to something unimportant going
By Gopi Krishna Jul 30, 2022
Don't undersell yourself!

Don't undersell yourself!

Let me start with an example. Early in my career, I worked on a project that helped combine many SQL databases and decommissioned roughly half of the servers and nightly batch processes, resulting in hundreds of thousands of dollars in savings every year. Come review time; I proudly noted that
By Gopi Krishna Jul 16, 2022
How to Master your Software Development Career from Day One.

How to Master your Software Development Career from Day One.

After working at Microsoft for over a decade, I can vouch for this — It takes several years to realize that a career in software development is much more than mere coding. While coding helps get things out the door into your customers’ hands, it is the other things that you
By Gopi Krishna Jul 1, 2022

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