Traits of a 10x engineer

Arpit Bhayani

tinkerer, educator, and entrepreneur


10x engineers are not 10x because they built a complex system; they are 10x because they almost always tend to find simple, stable, and manageable solutions to complex problems. To become one,

  1. operate with extreme ownership
  2. be curious with a high bias for action
  3. be a problem solver and not a complainer
  4. do not remain confined to some syllabus or curriculum
  5. have an innate passion for the domain you are operating in
  6. and most importantly understand business >> product >> engineering
Arpit Bhayani

Creator of DiceDB, ex-Google Dataproc, ex-Amazon Fast Data, ex-Director of Engg. SRE and Data Engineering at Unacademy. I spark engineering curiosity through my no-fluff engineering videos on YouTube and my courses


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