All posts written by Angus Dolan
Fireside chats about tech careers and automation paranoia
I read a book called Coders at Work by Peter Seibel before starting university. Inspired by the format of Jessica Livingston’s Founders at Work, each chapter features an interview with an accomplished programmer. The interview style of writing feels like a personal conversation, offering a rare look into the thought processes of some very impressive people. I'm currently in my second internship at FreeAgent. Last year, I wrote a blog… Continue reading
Engineering lessons from my SaaS startup
I’m now almost two months into my software engineering summer internship at FreeAgent. When I was 18, I chose to delay the start of my university course for 18 months to have a go at building a ‘Software as a Service’ (or ‘SaaS’) startup with two others. Our software, ‘trackio’, was a bring-your-own data platform that allowed sales teams to collect, connect and reconcile their disjointed data sources. It was… Continue reading