Archive - The Proactive Engineer

March 2025

#28 How Proactive Engineers Operate in Solo, Pair, and Mob Programming

What are they, and when should you use each?

Mar 28 •

Shehab Abdel-Salam

#27 Why Everyone Is Talking About Vibe Coding

Andrej Karpathy, co-founder of OpenAI, introduced a new term called vibe coding to describe how developers can guide an LLM to solve a problem by…

Mar 21 •

Shehab Abdel-Salam

#26 When to Pay Down Tech Debt

Handling technical debt is a recurring subject among software engineering teams.

Mar 14 •

Shehab Abdel-Salam

#25 Ten Unspoken Rules in Slack

After working at five different companies that use Slack, I’ve realised that within an engineering culture, there’s also a Slack culture.

Mar 7 •

Shehab Abdel-Salam

February 2025

#24 Preparing for Tech Interviews, Part 3: Behavioural

Four things to do to prepare for behavioural interviews

Feb 28 •

Shehab Abdel-Salam

#23 Preparing for Tech Interviews, Part 2: System Design

Four things to do to prepare for system design interviews

Feb 21 •

Shehab Abdel-Salam

#22 Preparing for Tech Interviews, Part 1: Coding

Welcome to Part 1 of Preparing for Tech Interviews series, where I share insights and advice gathered from software engineers working at high-growth…

Feb 14 •

Shehab Abdel-Salam

#21 Best Way To Show Progress Is To Demo

Five Reasons To Why You Should Demo More Often

Feb 7 •

Shehab Abdel-Salam

January 2025

#nojs-banner { position: fixed; bottom: 0; left: 0; padding: 16px 16px 16px 32px; width: 100%; box-sizing: border-box; background: red; color: white; font-family: -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 13px; line-height: 13px; } #nojs-banner a { color: inherit; text-decoration: underline; } This site requires JavaScript to run correctly. Please turn on JavaScript or unblock scripts