Octavian Costache

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Octavian Costache

Code Review best practices at Stellar Health

Recently I gave this presentation to our team on Code Review best practices — and maybe this will be helpful to other engineering teams as…

1 min readJan 25, 2022

Octavian Costache

Vision, Leadership and Management

I’ve seen this now many times — many engineers, as they grow in their career, at some point will want to become managers. It’s one way to…

3 min readOct 27, 2021

Octavian Costache

The 10 rules of management in a startup

Managing people in a startup is different than big-company management.

3 min readOct 25, 2020

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Norway fjords trip, itinerary

Fall of 2018 I traveled to Norway with my girlfriend. Was an amazing trip and wanted to share the itinerary — in case others are looking…

5 min readDec 16, 2018

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What I’ve learned building a deep learning Dog Face Recognition iOS app

I’m a software engineer in between startups. I spent some time at Google building the Google Finance charts, Multiple Inboxes on Gmail, and…

11 min readApr 7, 2018

What I’ve learned building a deep learning Dog Face Recognition iOS app

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Musings on the attention economy

Modern phones, besides being incredible value adding devices, have also served as a platform for building and using digital drugs — the…

2 min readSep 28, 2017

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Advice written by not-you might not apply to you

1 min readDec 26, 2012

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What does “it’s a good start” really mean

2 min readDec 13, 2012

What does “it’s a good start” really mean

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A small thought about design vs. engineering

1 min readDec 13, 2012

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Hey Twitter, remember when Facebook used to show everything?

1 min readDec 12, 2012

Code Review best practices at Stellar Health

Recently I gave this presentation to our team on Code Review best practices — and maybe this will be helpful to other engineering teams as…

Vision, Leadership and Management

I’ve seen this now many times — many engineers, as they grow in their career, at some point will want to become managers. It’s one way to…

The 10 rules of management in a startup

Managing people in a startup is different than big-company management.

Norway fjords trip, itinerary

Fall of 2018 I traveled to Norway with my girlfriend. Was an amazing trip and wanted to share the itinerary — in case others are looking…

What I’ve learned building a deep learning Dog Face Recognition iOS app

I’m a software engineer in between startups. I spent some time at Google building the Google Finance charts, Multiple Inboxes on Gmail, and…

Musings on the attention economy

Modern phones, besides being incredible value adding devices, have also served as a platform for building and using digital drugs — the…

Advice written by not-you might not apply to you

What does “it’s a good start” really mean

A small thought about design vs. engineering

Hey Twitter, remember when Facebook used to show *everything*?

Octavian Costache

Hey Twitter, remember when Facebook used to show everything?