asim aslam

About me

Bio

• Studied computer networks and distributed systems at Napier university
• Moved to London to work at a startup later acquired by Google
• Joined Hailo as a SWE to work on H2O, a global microservices platform
• Left Hailo to work on Micro and the Go Micro framework full time
• Started a company around Micro that built the product M3O
• Exploring ideas around Mu, a new community led app platform

Help

Here to help whoever needs it. Reach out for advice on open source, engineering, startups, etc.

Raise an issue or create a PR in my personal repo.

Thoughts

Some random thoughts...

1. Open source is hard. Sustainability is defined by personal goals. Often these are ill defined and lead to long term resentment when things get tough.
2. Work is not the be all and end all of life. Turns out work to live is a thing, not live to work. Somewhere along the way we got this backwards and became deeply unhappy.
3. It's ok to quit. We define success by a measure of grit and unreal expected outcomes, especially in the tech industry. Quitting is not failure, it's making a choice.
4. The world is not in your screen. The internet made us hyper connected and always-on by default. This was magnified by social networks and mobile phones. Life is all around you, shut off the devices.
5. We as developers can do more. Collectively we've allowed for-profit companies to dominate the path of technological consumption which mainly means addiction. We the developers can break this habit. How? By creating something new.
6. Community always wins. It turns out nothing is successful without a strong community, some call that the network effect, the truth, the simple fact is, people are the most important thing, the tech is just for our own benefit.