Setting the Breakpoint: 15 Years of Lessons & My Plan for this Show

"Setting the Breakpoint: 15 Years of Lessons & My Plan for this Show"

Hello, I'm Gaz and this is short for my surname which is Gazar and this is the first ever kind of episode for my new podcast which is called Gazar Breakpoint because I want to debug my project and when you want to debug your project you want to put break points so it's easy as that I'm just going to name this podcast Gazar Breakpoint.

So, a bit of introduction about myself. I know this is my first episode and for some of you wondering who's this guy.

I am Gaz. Everyone calls me Gaz. I've been an engineer for like I don't know 15 16 17 years now. And I've done a lot of different sort of projects over the years through different companies and countries or continents as well. And I had a chance to work with many many engineers and I've learned so much and I've been into different positions from manager be like in IC role and different sort of like problems that I had to solve and I had a chance to kind of learn from tons of people read a lot of books about it as well. So and I've been quite an active person through the community as well. So I've done talks, I've done speeches through conferences, I've done keynotes and this is my episode and I just want to take you through for example my website as well.

So let's go and what I've been busy with this is my website it's called gazar.dev and I've been writing a lot of articles mostly around different subjects like you see agentic systems react 19 I've got the categories here as well I write about front end back end a bit more advanced stuff and like kind of all the other topics as well and these are like you can go through them read them and if you had any comments or question you can feel free to ask me as well.

There's the other stuff I do as you kind of scroll down I'm quite fan of my newsletter which is called Monday by Gazar and every Monday I try to publish a kind of a newsletter and the last one was for example about how as a software architect you want to derisk your decision making — not just you don't want to come up with a new innovation, you don't want to kind of say let's use this fancy new technology strategy because everyone loves it and solve this problem. You actually want to make kind of like quick win. You don't want to make a lot of changes. You want to do the less amount of change needed to kind of come up with a good solution. So something you won't regret in the future. So this is some sort of stuff I write in my newsletter as well. Feel free to join and subscribe.

The other stuff I do, I obviously have some projects you can feel free to check out. I've got some courses. I've got around seven courses mostly around in Farsi. So and I think now at the moment is like 11,000 students, but I've learned so much through these courses myself and I've been teaching them and being kind of talked to them to my students. So this is kind of an active community and it's been an awesome experience as well.

I've got obviously other projects and this is another thing I do as well. This is called Noghte Vorood or Entry Point and this is a podcast I talk in Farsi with a lot of my guests with my co-hosts as well and the recent one was around like one of the online education systems and we talked to the directors and it's a good friend of mine as well and we went through a lot of questions obviously with AI and how you can have their online course and a lot of like little details. So feel free to tune in if you understand Farsi.

But yeah, so this is going to be my English podcast which is called as I said Gazar Breakpoint and I've been part of like different nonprofit businesses as well which helps the students in need to learn new subjects as well and yeah so this is a website. One of the things I really like about this website is you refresh it you get to see me in a different emotions — you see I'm happy this one, I'm like kind of sad this one. Yeah, I'm probably a bit bored here. So, you get different emojis as well. It's really cool.

The other section I have is mentorships. I'm actually spending time with my students or people who want to mentor them as well. So they're probably up for a quick chat, a discovery call or like a mock interview and that's been really going well as well. I'm also part of the ADP list. So if you know ADP list as well that's also another kind of mentorship application out there — you can actually book my time there as well and just talk to me and it's been really helpful. I've had a chance to talk to many people from different countries and it's been such a good experience as well.

So the other stuff is like my podcast and courses in English will be launching soon. I'm going to probably publish soon one of them soon within a month or two. So you can absolutely follow me as well. You can follow me on LinkedIn or my Twitter and yeah, you can see my new courses if I publish them as well. And then yeah, obviously I review books and all the articles and you can absolutely check my resume and what I've done and what countries or what companies I've worked with as well. And this is my website. I'm quite proud of my website.

But the other thing I want to actually take you on is what I'm going to do through this podcast. So I love to draw. So you would notice as for example the intro I love to draw as well. So one of the things I do a lot as well is to take you on my drawings.

So what's going to be the goal of Breakpoint? So I think we will be talking a lot about some educational content. The educational content would be there — you can see the tutorials, probably mostly around like the principles or for example what is actually really common between engineers, what to use or the best practices and this sort of stuff. So it's going to be there.

We're going to talk about probably like the system design and the new methods or whatever is fancy or shiny out there or common problems that you get to see when you're actually a software engineer. And you can also probably we go to a bit of more like design system as well — like the front end design system — and so it would be all around front end, back end and all the other stuff. Probably talk a lot about the AI engineering and all the new fancy stuff you can do with AI so that's going to be a lot of like tutorials. It would be probably in-depth and it wouldn't be like the basic education — it would be a bit more advanced stuff. So if you're really interested in knowing them, you can watch them as well.

The other thing I'm really keen to do is to invite my guests which I've got some friends. I have a lot of like engineers I know through different countries and probably a lot of people are actually interested in. So I'm going to invite some guests and I'll take him to kind of talk to them through technical questions all around. It's going to be the tutorials as a guest. I'll see how it goes. I definitely want to explore a bit of like probably actually live coding and doing some projects as well. So would be some live coding as well. So it would be fun.

And I'm really excited about my Gazar Breakpoint podcast. Hopefully to publish one episode every probably week as well, mostly on Monday. Same as probably my system design or might change the day as I go through because the newsletter is also taking some of my time. So this one probably would be on Monday as well. And I've also got the other podcast too.

So the Gazar Breakpoint would be really good for people who want to learn to be kind of a staff engineer or they're really keen to be like a solution architect and they want to learn the best practices and how to actually go through the different sort of problems they have. The other thing would be like talking about soft skills. So you know soft skill is really important through our business. There's a lot of like cases that you need to handle different sort of scenarios as well. So softer skills would be a big discussion. We probably have some episodes all around some of the cases or some of the examples that we can go through or some of my guests are going to talk about as well. And that probably helps you to be more of an engineering manager as well. So it would be really nice.

We go through them. It would be probably really helpful for a lot of people and you can absolutely go through my mentorship — put my time, talk to me. Yeah, I'm going to take you through these ones as well. So we're going to learn tons of stuff all around engineering, mostly around like the tutorials or something to learn and the system design review or for example high-level design or this sort of stuff that we go through and then engineering manager — how to handle different cases, different people or different scenarios that you might actually encounter.

So, this is the first episode. I want to keep it short because I just want to focus on the podcast, but hope to see you in the next episodes. And you can absolutely find me on YouTube and I'll try to publish them on my LinkedIn and also Spotify as well. Thank you and see you in the next!