How I switched career and got good enough to start working for AMBOSS. — It was 2015 and I was in Berlin noodling around with making games with Unity in C# — at least when I wasn’t trying to teach business professionals and civil servants to communicate better in English. I’d been doing that for about a decade and it had served me well…

How I graduated from medical school and made the best decision of my life: to learn to code — I graduated from medical school knowing that I didn’t see myself working as a doctor. Luckily, at that time, a company called AMBOSS was looking for a doctor who had passed the United States Medical Licensing Exams. So I applied and landed my first job as a medical editor! The…

The best company you’ve never heard of — If you’re an engineer you might not have heard of AMBOSS. I hadn’t either before joining in 2018. It’s not a household name or, unlike Spotify, Netflix, Intercom or Zalando, one especially associated with tech— that is, unless you are a medical student or doctor. With over 95% of the…

An in-depth look at JavaScript ES10 / ECMAScript 2019 — The 10th edition of JavaScript, ECMAScript 2019, was published in June 2019. Here’s one new addition which could well remove a dependency or two or better yet replace a couple of lines of quite dense code. Array.Flat() This array method takes a single optional “depth” argument (which defaults to 1should it…

A blog for people like me — Mid-level Frontend Developers who want to be Senior Frontend Engineers. — Preamble: A bit about the theme, scope and intention of the Towards Senior publication. This blog will be two things: reflection upon what has been and exploration of the path forwards. So here will be that dialogue on strategies to optimise the tactics to traverse the gap between my current and future positions. By reflecting upon how I arrived here — a mid-level Frontend…