Commit Engineer Kingsley Torlowei shows how he built a configurable machine learning pipeline with FastAPI, Celery and Redis.

In this edition of our peer-to-peer Q+A, a Commit community member asks for suggestions in managing feelings of inadequacy.

Commit Engineer, Xavier del Castillo, discusses his approach to building Irontemple, a workout app.

“Even after 20 years in the industry, you have stuff to learn—even from a co-op student. I have things to learn about the industry, the company I work for and the tools I use. My way is not always the best way.”

“The startup scene is more my forte. It’s faster paced, with more responsibility. It’s not just that your decisions have a greater impact, it’s that you hold much more responsibility. I felt enticed and excited by that.”

“Don’t schedule everything for the last minute so that single, super-skilled person has to take responsibility for everything. Build time into your schedule so they can train other people.”

“They literally saved me hundreds of hours, and they helped us scale through a period of hyper growth by adding some really core pieces to the team.”

“You can’t take your job title with you, you can’t always take your seniority with you, but you can take your toolbox of skills. So when you have an opportunity to learn and build that toolbox, take it.”

“Documentation is part of the software—if users can’t figure out how to use the software, then there is no value delivered. If the docs aren’t in the same repo as the code, people will invariably forget to update them, and if the docs are out of sync with the code, they are almost useless.”

“No smart, ambitious engineer wants to be told exactly what to do. They want agency and decision making.”