shobhit @Sinister_Light Twitter profile

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shobhit

@Sinister_Light

3 years

@nkskalyan @anshublog @sarthakgh @patrickc @paraga IIT still have 16K seats compared to Harvard’s 22K🤔

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"If you cannot build a monolith what makes you think you can build distributed microservices?" - Simon Brown

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@Sinister_Light

5 years

Best Engineering Managers I know, are excellent debuggers. Relentless in their pursuit of “Why?”

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@Sinister_Light

3 years

Product manager is tech industry’s answer to general manager.

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@Sinister_Light

4 years

Super proud of Shovel team, for winning NDHM Hackathon. We built to simplify claim processing for health insurance. Having fun with @wiredmau5 @wallydrag8 @_sharmavipul @prashant_mit @asquare08 @devenbhooshan

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@Sinister_Light

3 years

Key to happiness, is low expectations. - Phil Dunphy, Modern Family.

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@Sinister_Light

3 years

Between cofounders, terms are for the known, contingencies are for unknown and trust is for unknown unknowns.

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@Sinister_Light

3 years

You learn from who you work with.

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@Sinister_Light

2 years

And this happened 🥳

Ajey Gore

@AjeyGore

2 years

What a day #GoTo @gojekindonesia @tokopedia

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@Sinister_Light

2 years

Benefits of building a company are granted only to the people who show up day after day, especially when they aren’t in the mood.

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@Sinister_Light

4 years

You have to standardise, before you optimise. You Can’t improve anything which doesn’t exist.

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@Sinister_Light

3 years

“Whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are so certain of themselves, yet wiser people so full of doubts”

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shobhit

@Sinister_Light

3 years

The core job of a Software Architect is to model the business domain. The role is about solving business problems by being on frontiers of tech, sadly the majority focuses only on "frontiers of tech".

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@Sinister_Light

3 years

Metric is a measure of an abstraction. Using metric without understanding the abstraction makes everything look like nail for your hammer.

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@Sinister_Light

6 months

Winning is in moments, “not dying” is everyday.

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shobhit

@Sinister_Light

3 years

And the journey begins. 🚀

Shovel.Company

@ShovelCompany

3 years

Hello world! We're live, and wanted to start by introducing you to the team behind ! 🚀 Meet Shobhit, Co-founder & CEO @shovelcompany . Before starting Shovel, @Sinister_Light was SVP Engineering @Gojek , leading the transport and platform teams there 😎

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@Sinister_Light

3 years

You understand only if you can explain.

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@Sinister_Light

3 years

With anything young and tender the most important part of the task is the beginning of it; for that is the time at which the character is being formed. - Plato, The Republic.

Shovel.Company

@ShovelCompany

3 years

We're super excited to announce our new look and identity! We start, as all stories do, changing the world one keystroke at a time.

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@Sinister_Light

3 years

On 26th March, the world meme creators day, we at wanted to commemorate Richard Dawkins' 80th birthday. Launching Memeplex, a meme generator that allows you to directly mint NFTs from your original memes. (1/ 2)

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shobhit

@Sinister_Light

5 years

Talking about Kafka and Culture, how software decides communication in an organisation.

YourStory

@YourStoryCo

5 years

Literature can at times come to the rescue of technology, hear about this and more from Shobhit Srivastava, Swiss Knife, GOJEK at #FutureOfWork where he will talk about ''How Kafka solved a culture problem at GOJEK'' @gojekindonesia @gojektech

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@Sinister_Light

2 years

@ponnappa Non fiction strengthens the floor, while fiction raises the ceiling.

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@Sinister_Light

4 years

You get what you repeat.

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@Sinister_Light

6 years

The aim of an interviewer is to convert a bunch of subjective thoughts into a binary outcome.

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@Sinister_Light

3 years

Trust needs to given, it is hardly earned.

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@Sinister_Light

3 years

Therapy helps to debug feelings.

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@Sinister_Light

3 years

Measuring engineering performance and effectiveness is like financial independence - easy to aspire for but hard to achieve. There is no easy way to navigate the obstacles that lay in front of teams striving for world-class execution. (1/n)

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@Sinister_Light

4 years

Ignorant blames others, beginners blame themselves and masters blame no one.

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@Sinister_Light

3 years

It takes muscles to do hard things, and muscles get built by doing hard things.

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@Sinister_Light

10 months

Thank you @tanujb - for inviting us to this small gathering of brilliant minds. Looking forward to our future conversations 🙏

Shovel.Company

@ShovelCompany

10 months

Thrilled to be in same room and discuss digital identity, proof of personhood and future infra among many topics with @pramodkvarma @SujithNairK @VitalikButerin - truly the set of folks defining web3.

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@Sinister_Light

3 years

“The world always seems brighter when you’ve just made something that wasn’t there before.”

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@Sinister_Light

2 years

Most engineering management products should be used for teaching the team, not evaluating the team.

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@Sinister_Light

3 years

Hope is not a strategy.

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@Sinister_Light

3 years

“The future will belong not only to the educated man, but to the man who is educated to use his leisure wisely.”

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@Sinister_Light

3 years

“The skill of writing is to create a context in which other people can think.” - Edwin Schlossberg

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@Sinister_Light

3 years

Focus is a currency, choose to spend it wisely:)

Amod Malviya

@amodm

6 years

Companies usually don't need more engineers, they need less ideas and more focus.

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@Sinister_Light

2 years

Looking for software interns to work with us at Shovel. RT for good karma.

Shovel.Company

@ShovelCompany

2 years

We are reopening the internship program at Shovel. It's a paid position, for 6 month duration. Candidates who can commit full-time & with GSOC experience preferred. Reach out to us if you want to learn more and are looking to work with a world-class deep tech team.

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@Sinister_Light

9 months

Pace layering

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@Sinister_Light

2 years

@AjeyGore Perpetual problem. My old slides from Company's offsite :D I start by explaining the "Theory of constraints". Sometimes it works, sometimes people ask "Why do we have constraints".

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@Sinister_Light

9 months

“Full stack developer” means developer who has no-complains when venturing into uncharted space, not expertise in “full-stack”.

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@Sinister_Light

3 years

I'm discussing “Startup scaling: Hiring 20 good engineers per month” with @ponnappa and The Indian Startup Club. Tomorrow, 9 Feb at 6:00 PM IST on @joinclubhouse . Join us!

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shobhit

@Sinister_Light

4 years

Thank you @AjeyGore , @gojektech will never be the same. What at adventure this was, made stories for lifetime.

Ajey Gore

@AjeyGore

4 years

As I move on from gojek, here is my final message to my colleagues @gojekindonesia @gojektech Good-byes are tough, but this isn’t a good-bye #pastiadajalan #gojek4life

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@Sinister_Light

8 months

Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away. - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Airman's Odyssey

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@Sinister_Light

2 years

This is fantastic 🤣

Jar

@JarAppHQ

2 years

🤷🏻‍♂️😀 #NFT #InvestRight

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@Sinister_Light

1 year

"We build our computer (systems) the way we build our cities: over time, without a plan, on top of ruins." - Ellen Ullman

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@Sinister_Light

10 months

@cburniske Philosophy needs to wrapped in a product

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shobhit

@Sinister_Light

3 years

In this age, managing “guilt” of a break is a real problem

Sidu Ponnappa

@ponnappa

3 years

You're a fucking human being experiencing life, not a target for a mindless optimization process. "I'm taking a break, how do I use my break productively?" Fuck, breaks my heart.

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shobhit

@Sinister_Light

2 years

So happy for this team 🎊

Lal Chand Bisu

@lcbisu

2 years

Just crossed 200k active paid users on Kuku FM. At Jan end we were at 1k paid users. Just imagine this crazy growth journey. @KukuFMOfficial team you're the best! 😍

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@Sinister_Light

3 years

Problem need a plan, guilt is for a sin.

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@Sinister_Light

5 years

“Comparison is death of joy.” - Mark Twain

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@Sinister_Light

3 years

Magic happens when art meets science.

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@Sinister_Light

9 months

“I want to stay as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can't see from the center.” ― Kurt Vonnegut

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@Sinister_Light

3 years

Naivety and idealism is a deadly combination.

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@Sinister_Light

2 years

“When you want to hurry something, that means you no longer care about it and want to get on to other things.”

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@Sinister_Light

2 years

"the best way to get the right answer on the internet is not to ask a question; it's to post the wrong answer." - Cunnigham's Law

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@Sinister_Light

5 years

A New Gojek! by @FatemajRaja

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@Sinister_Light

2 years

Every engineering team have a noisy alerts slack channel, wondering why so?

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@Sinister_Light

3 years

I'm discussing “Late Night Realtalk: Startup Hiring” with @ponnappa and The Indian Startup Club. Today, 28 Jan at 10:00 PM IST on @joinclubhouse . Join us!

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shobhit

@Sinister_Light

3 years

Odet Playground is LIVE on Product Hunt! Do check it out and would love your feedback! 💣

Playground Alpha - Product Information, Latest Updates, and Reviews 2024 | Product Hunt

Odet is an intelligence platform for engineering teams to view and diagnose potential blockers through end-to-end visibility into the SDLC process. It provides a custom query & rule engine for teams...

www.producthunt.com

Shovel.Company

@ShovelCompany

3 years

Last week, we spoke about the problems restricting engineering teams from delivering reliably at pace & scale. Today, we are excited to open the Public Beta for Odet. Odet Playground is an exciting way for all engineering teams to experience it here:

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@Sinister_Light

8 months

@anuatluru People don’t even know that they can study what they’re “actually passionate about”

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@Sinister_Light

2 years

@kunksed they went through tough entrance exam of high brand school, which signals higher probability of success during employment.

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@Sinister_Light

3 years

“Without great solitude no serious work is possible.” - Pablo Picasso

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@Sinister_Light

3 years

Momentum is necessary for motivation.

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@Sinister_Light

3 years

Confidence is domain-specific.

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@Sinister_Light

3 years

Cynics don’t build empires.

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@Sinister_Light

3 years

@FitFounder How do you define winners?

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@Sinister_Light

7 years

The whole idea of “of the people, by the people, for the people” is the centerpiece of democracy. Unfortunately, “the people” are unpleasant

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@Sinister_Light

1 year

"The most important thing in a programming language is the name. A language will not succeed without a good name. I have recently invented a very good name, and now I am looking for a suitable language." - Donald Knuth

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@Sinister_Light

3 years

If you do not ask, then the answer is always no.

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@Sinister_Light

3 years

“If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favourable” - Seneca

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shobhit

@Sinister_Light

6 years

. @vikramadhiman running Business model canvas workshop at @gojektech

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@Sinister_Light

3 years

@mister_whistler @unacademy @Procreate Bought a house and debt free 👀

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@Sinister_Light

11 months

“There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it’s going to be a butterfly.” - Buckminster Fuller

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shobhit

@Sinister_Light

3 years

Super excited to have @devdeadviz aboard. Big day for @ShovelCompany

Kuldeep Gupta

@devdeadviz

3 years

Hey Guys! I'm excited to tell you all that I am joining @ShovelCompany as a Frontend Engineer Intern. Happy to learn and grow in this role. Thank You @deba_ghtk , @Sinister_Light for providing me this opportunity, and @tanaypratap for guiding me and always supporting me!🥳

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@Sinister_Light

3 years

@ponnappa Me. Plan is to have a plan in 3 months!

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@Sinister_Light

3 years

Systems are in books, while tactics are on blogs.

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shobhit

@Sinister_Light

3 years

What we at shovel are upto :)

Shovel.Company

@ShovelCompany

3 years

Many of you asked us, what’s been happening at Shovel? We like to build for fun, and spent the past few months tinkering with tech to solve interesting problems we’ve faced. Building, learning, selling helped us explore multiple spaces; a🧵of our fun prototypes below. (1/n)

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@Sinister_Light

3 years

Software is simply the encoding of human thought, and thus an almost unbounded design space.

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@Sinister_Light

3 years

Greatest victories are not written into the initial plans. They happen despite the plans.

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@Sinister_Light

3 years

“To attain knowledge add things everyday. To attain wisdom subtract things everyday.” - Lao-Tzu

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@Sinister_Light

5 years

How Kafka changed the way we talked at @gojektech

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@Sinister_Light

2 years

Failure is the teacher.

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@Sinister_Light

3 years

Do right by those who help your company succeed.

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@Sinister_Light

3 years

Discussion is meant to be an exploration.

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shobhit

@Sinister_Light

4 years

It was a pleasure to work with this gentleman :)

Debashish Ghatak

@debaghtk

4 years

Tomorrow will mark 5 years of my work anniversary. I still remember the day when I left college and went straight to Noida to join the office. What a ride it has been. Thank you @CodeIgnition @gojektech

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@Sinister_Light

3 years

To ask a right question is harder than to answer it. - Georg Cantor

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@Sinister_Light

1 year

Vision without execution is hallucination.

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shobhit

@Sinister_Light

6 years

In an organisation full of smart people, building consensus is a hard problem. #DistributedSystems

Sidu Ponnappa

@ponnappa

6 years

The hallmark of an organization filled with smart people is "just tell them to do X" doesn't work.

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@Sinister_Light

1 year

All men dream, but not equally. Those who dream by night, in the dusty recesses of their minds, wake in the day to find that it was vanity. But the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dreams with open eyes to make it possible. - T.E. Lawrence

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@Sinister_Light

6 years

Predictability is only goal of a Project Manager

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@Sinister_Light

9 years

“People at this age plays with children,grand children. He Play with life of students, life of innovators, of researchers #DictatorFreeIITJ ”

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@Sinister_Light

3 years

If you are running Postgresql in production then you need to sign up on this link to master it and look no further , powered by @devenbhooshan

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@Sinister_Light

1 year

Summarisation is an art.

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@Sinister_Light

3 years

Come join us! Feel free to message me on twitter. DMs are open.

Debashish Ghatak

@debaghtk

3 years

Hiring frontend engineers for internships, should be comfortable with HTML, CSS, JS, Git, and APIs. Candidates with GSOC experience preferred. Reach out to me if you want to learn more and looking to work with a world-class deep tech team @ShovelCompany

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@Sinister_Light

3 years

Risk and luck are doppelgängers

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@Sinister_Light

3 years

In mathematics you don’t understand things. You just get used to them. - John Von Neumann

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@Sinister_Light

2 years

Future of web user interfaces looks so much like an IDE.

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@Sinister_Light

4 years

Best rewrite is the one that didn’t happen!

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@Sinister_Light

10 months

@shri_shobhit I have personally managed a few people in PIP and help them to a decent role in the company. The PIP only works if intent to improve performance is genuine from both parties.

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@Sinister_Light

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