Deven
deven.codes
Deven
@deven.codes
Software engineer, turned product manager, turned engineer again.

Helping Senior+ Software Engineers figure out this whole career-thing at https://deven.codes
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I treat our Slack as if I'm checking a social network and I can't tell if that's a good or bad thing
August 5, 2025 at 3:12 AM
New flight means new book ✈️
July 21, 2025 at 2:16 PM
If you’re a Senior+ Software Engineer, looking for tangible ways to improve the culture on your team, I wrote something for you!

deven.codes/posts/the-cu...
The Culture Is in the Code Review
Someone once told me that a company’s culture isn’t defined by your HR department or your C-suite - it’s defined by how we show up and treat each other every day. It’s built in the small, daily intera...
deven.codes
June 16, 2025 at 11:41 AM
I’ve heard a few AI optimists claim that code generation tools will eventually render many Software Engineers into Product Managers. 🤔 As someone who’s been in both roles, that doesn’t sit right with me. Software Engineer minus coding does not equal Product Manager.

What do you think?
June 3, 2025 at 11:55 AM
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See you tonight for tacos 🌮
We can’t wait to see you all at 6 PM for an evening of awesome presentations and great conversation.

✨ Featuring
@thierylaverdure.com
@bradenkeith.bsky.social

🙏 Huge thanks to @nativephp.com for making tonight possible!

‼️ We will be meeting at a new location: phpxatl.com/meetups/2975...
Meetup @ Motion Recruitment - PHP×ATL
Meetup @ Motion Recruitment on Wednesday, May 21st 2025 from 6:00pm to 8:00pm EDT
phpxatl.com
May 21, 2025 at 12:42 PM
I've been looking for a simpler and more secure way to work with secrets during local development across my team. Couldn't find one, so I'm building an open source, vault-agnostic tool that does just that! Calling it RunSecret (github.com/runsecret/rsec).

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GitHub - runsecret/rsec: RunSecret CLI
RunSecret CLI. Contribute to runsecret/rsec development by creating an account on GitHub.
github.com
April 27, 2025 at 12:57 AM
Interfaces might possibly be my single favorite feature of Go
April 19, 2025 at 5:37 PM
How are you safely managing secrets for local development? In my experience the git ignored .env file is the most common pattern, which… leaves a lot to be desired.

I think I’ve got a better way, but want to make sure I’m not missing something already out there 😁
April 17, 2025 at 11:38 AM
I recently traded in ~10 years of Python to go full-time on this Gopher thing. So far I really like it… except for the parts I don’t 🤔
November 24, 2024 at 2:08 PM