Upgrade to Pro — share decks privately, control downloads, hide ads and more …

Tips to my younger self

Avatar for Martin Cronjé Martin Cronjé
March 05, 2020
Technology
62
0

Tips to my younger self

Avatar for Martin Cronjé

Martin Cronjé

March 05, 2020

More Decks by Martin Cronjé

See All by Martin Cronjé
A DevOps story - Turning our most significant production outage into a driver for positive lasting change. A DevOps story.
Avatar for Martin Cronjé martincronje
0
92
Bootstrapping great teams
Avatar for Martin Cronjé martincronje
1
110
The important of architecture
Avatar for Martin Cronjé martincronje
0
88
How we built a top grossing app with $30,000 and a pure remote team
Avatar for Martin Cronjé martincronje
0
35
AgileNZ - Towards Mastery: Establishing Craftsmanship Culture in a Team
Avatar for Martin Cronjé martincronje
0
280
Towards mastery: Establishing craftsmanship culture in a team
Avatar for Martin Cronjé martincronje
2
320
Rescuing legacy software from impending doom (Refactoring from the trenches)
Avatar for Martin Cronjé martincronje
1
500
Rescuing Legacy Software from Impending Doom. Refactoring Stories from the Trenches
Avatar for Martin Cronjé martincronje
1
110
Business analysis in an agile world
Avatar for Martin Cronjé martincronje
1
140

Other Decks in Technology

See All in Technology
kaonavi Tech Night＃1
Avatar for 株式会社カオナビ kaonavi
0
150
生成 AI 時代にいま一度「問い合わせ」について考えてみる
Avatar for kazzpapa3 kazzpapa3
1
130
Jitera Company Deck
Avatar for Jitera Inc. jitera
0
270
伝票作成AIエージェントを支える、LLMOpsとインフラの選択肢 / AICon2026_takeda
Avatar for Rakus_Dev rakus_dev
0
260
仕様駆動開発、導入半年。「本当に速くなってるの?」にデータで答える / AICon2026_hirakawa
Avatar for Rakus_Dev rakus_dev
0
320
【公開用】AI_Dev_Ex2026_AI_登壇資料
Avatar for matsuri_tech matsuritechnologies
PRO
1
470
そのドキュメント、自動化しませんか？
Avatar for yuk yuksew
1
410
複数プロダクト組織のAIネイティブ化における戦略 / AICon2026_kude
Avatar for Rakus_Dev rakus_dev
0
300
穢れた技術選定について
Avatar for watany watany
19
6.1k
インシデント事例と
パッケージの全量解析に学ぶ
ソフトウェアサプライチェーンの守り方 / supply-chain-attack-defense
Avatar for GMO Flatt Security flatt_security
0
890
なぜ、あなたのAPIは使われないのか？ AX時代の設計原則、ガードレール、運用体制
Avatar for Yoichi Kawasaki yokawasa
1
210
SRENEXT_2026_Chairs__Talks_in_Tamachi.sre.pdf
Avatar for srenext srenext
1
140

Featured

See All Featured
Fantastic passwords and where to find them - at NoRuKo
Avatar for Phil Nash philnash
52
3.8k
The Director’s Chair: Orchestrating AI for Truly Effective Learning
Avatar for Mike Taylor tmiket
1
220
Money Talks: Using Revenue to Get Sh*t Done
Avatar for Nikki Halliwell nikkihalliwell
0
410
Stop Working from a Prison Cell
Avatar for Chris Michel hatefulcrawdad
274
21k
Exploring the relationship between traditional SERPs and Gen AI search
Avatar for Ray Grieselhuber raygrieselhuber
PRO
2
4.2k
AI Search: Implications for SEO and How to Move Forward - #ShenzhenSEOConference
Avatar for Aleyda Solis aleyda
1
1.3k
Tips & Tricks on How to Get Your First Job In Tech
Avatar for Honza Javorek honzajavorek
1
620
How GitHub (no longer) Works
Avatar for Zach Holman holman
316
150k
The State of eCommerce SEO: How to Win in Today's Products SERPs - #SEOweek
Avatar for Aleyda Solis aleyda
2
11k
Facilitating Awesome Meetings
Avatar for Lara Hogan lara
57
7k
The innovator’s Mindset - 
Leading Through an Era of Exponential Change - McGill University 2025
Avatar for Jean-Marc De Jonghe jdejongh
PRO
1
220
Deep Space Network (abreviated)
Avatar for Tony Rice tonyrice
0
230

Transcript

  1. Channeling your energy @martincronje

  2. 1989-1998: Backstory

  3. on OpenStack show message box put "Hello World!" into message

    box end OpenStack
  4. None

  5. Warez all the things!!

  6. None

  7. 1998-2009: Engineer to Architect

  8. None

  9. 90 hour weeks

  10. None

  11. 😓 I don’t regret the times where I persevered but…

  12. None

  13. 💡Look after yourself 💡Push when it matters

  14. ❤ Passion is awesome but…

  15. 💡Don’t be to hard on yourself

  16. 2009-2016: Engineering Coach & Founder

  17. None

  18. * Coached ~100 teams * Iterated on ~10 product ideas

    * Launched 2 successful products * International conferences
  19. None

  20. 😖 Everyone has the same problems but…

  21. 💸 Economics drive behaviour and thus improvements

  22. 💡Find the right companies

  23. 2016-2020: Engineering Leader

  24. Intuition & grokking the basics

  25. 💡Diverse experiences

  26. None

  27. 💡It is not about the technology!!

  28. Ask me anything!

  29. 💡 Look after yourself 💡 Push when it matters 💡

    Find the right companies 💡 Diverse experiences 💡 It is not about the technology!!