Your First 90 Days as a New Engineering Manager
Scripts, checklists, and a week-by-week plan for first-time tech leads and new engineering managers.
Open the book pageJayesh Shende
Search systems, and the notes from running them.
Jayesh Shende builds enterprise search systems and leads the engineers who operate them. The work, the notes, and the books are published here under the name Oppority.
Start here
01
Profile
Who I am, and how to start a conversation.
02Work
The problem, the approach, and the conclusion for each record.
03Craft
Enterprise search, relevance, and the leadership of engineers.
04Books
Two published playbooks.
05Writing
Notes published on this site, with copies on Medium and DEV.
06Topics
Subjects arranged from the general to the specific.
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Your First 90 Days as a Software Developer
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In short
Who is Jayesh Shende?
Jayesh Shende is an engineering manager and search engineer. For about ten years his work has centered on Apache Lucene, Apache Solr, Elasticsearch, and OpenSearch. He publishes books and notes under the name Oppority.
What is Oppority?
Oppority is the name on Jayesh Shende's books and notes.
Where does he publish?
Notes are on this site, on Medium, and on DEV. The Kindle books are on Amazon.
Where is the work described?
The Work page lists each record in the same form: the problem, the approach, and the conclusion. Each subject page collects the records and the notes that belong to it.
Is Jayesh Shende available for a role?
Jayesh Shende is open to full-time employment and to a long-term contract that would be the role, including work as a forward deployed search engineer. He is also open to a commitment with a team, a project, a company, or an advisory board. A conversation starts on LinkedIn.