Welcome to my corner of the web.
I'm Vishen Gounden, a loving husband, a doting father, software engineer and technical leader. I'm passionate about building high quality software that makes an impact. I believe the best results come from understanding the problem space and crafting a great user experience that solves it. I use my nearly decade and a half of expertise to not only build great systems, but share my knowledge to empower the next generation of software engineers. Feel free to explore some of my musings here, as well as shared on other channels like on LinkedIn or follow me on BlueSky or x.com.
Writing
Building my own 'app'
Sharing a bit of my journey in a building an app for myself and my wife. This might help others aiming to build their own app, or find the app I'm building useful for themselves!
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Lessons learnt after a few months of posting
After months of weekly blog posts, I've learned valuable lessons about content creation and plan to shift to more in-depth, monthly posts to provide higher quality insights and experiences.
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Delegation using standards, systems and templates
A dive into tools and techniques I've adopted to help improve my delegation skills for a variety of tasks and duties at a varying level of complexity - from simple administrative work to advanced software engineering.
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Building the right thing - Functional Suitability in Software Quality
We explore functional suitability as we delve into the quality characteristics in this instalment of my series on software quality. It's important to build software right, but arguably its more important to build the right thing.
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Setting effective goals
Setting good goals is difficult! In this post I share techniques I use to help me set goals for myself, as well as guide others on their own goal setting endeavours. I've developed these approaches over many years of goal setting for myself and others, evolving it and adopting parts of various techniques for goal setting to create one that works for me - take what you can from me and adopt the parts that resonate with you!
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