David Anaya – Medium

Jan 26

The hiring test

I recently changed jobs. It took me some solid five months to find a new company since I started applying, so you can imagine that I was involved in many different hiring processes. You’ve probably heard about The Great Resignation as this unavoidable movement where employees quit their jobs. There…

Hiring

14 min read

Jan 12

Don’t be a hero manager

Being a good individual contributor means following best practices, applying patterns, testing thoroughly, being in control, solving problems. As technical managers, we still love to solve problems; we may even crave it because we are missing the short-term benefits of being an individual contributor. No tests passed, no tickets closed…

Management

6 min read

May 23, 2021

Embracing the imposter syndrome

When sharing and accessing information can be achieved in just a few seconds from almost anywhere in the world, learning and collaboration are as easy as it’s ever been. Leaders talk about their work and ideas in podcasts, engineers tweet about best practices and programming languages, products and services are…

Imposter Syndrome

6 min read

Published in Koa Health

·Mar 7, 2021

Road to management in engineering

I became an engineering manager at Koa Health 15 months ago after many years as an individual contributor and in technical lead roles. Stepping up into one of the top management positions in Engineering, it is normal to have some concerns and reservations. What am I supposed to do in…

Engineering Mangement

11 min read

Published in Koa Health

·Mar 11, 2020

90 days — My journey from tech lead to engineering manager

From individual contributor to management I started my career as a software engineer …more than 18 years ago. I spent most of that time as a developer, but I ultimately ended up covering a tech lead role in every company I worked for. I joined Alpha more than 2 years ago as a software developer Soon after, I became a tech lead. I saw the engineering team and the whole company grow, and I got…

Management

8 min read

90 days — My journey from tech lead to engineering manager

Published in Koa Health

·Jul 22, 2019

Custom scroll physics in Flutter

In this article, we will write our own ScrollPhysics to alter the behavior of the scroll in a ListView. KISS (Keep It Simple… pleaSe) Recurrent scenario, we have a set of pages or slides that we want to iterate over.

Flutter

4 min read

Published in Koa Health

·Jul 6, 2019

How to track screen transitions in Flutter with RouteObserver

In this article, I’ll explain how to useRouteObserver and RouteAware in Flutter to automatically track screen transitions. Why would I ever need to do that? Best case scenario when you develop an app that gets released is that it’s an immediate success and users love it and use it exactly the way you anticipated. …

Flutter

4 min read

Published in Koa Health

·May 26, 2019

Custom sliders in Flutter

In this article, I will explain what to do when you need to change completely the visuals for a Slider in Flutter and it is not enough with the options provided for customization by the theme. One of the things I like the most about Flutter is the number of…

Flutter

4 min read

Published in Koa Health

·May 19, 2019

Download assets dynamically in Flutter

In this article, I will explain how to download assets dynamically in a Flutter app so that they can be accessed later in offline mode. Why would I ever need to do anything like that? Let’s imagine I want to build an app about making cakes. I will include recipes, pictures, and videos, it will be super cool and full…

Flutter

5 min read

Published in Koa Health

·Apr 22, 2019

Combining multiple GestureDetectors in Flutter

In this article I will present a use case where multiple GestureDetectors can interfere with each other and how by implementing our own GestureDetector we can modify the default precedences. Da problem! In one of my past articles I explained how I built a circular slider widget in Flutter, which is also…

Flutter

5 min read