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Decompose your product/technical specs into logical, single responsibility, atomic parts. And CI/CD will take care of the rest.
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Decompose your work into logical, single responsibility, atomic commits.
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 I'm Nikolay Konovalov, but feel free to call me Nik. 
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 I'm a Software Engineer. It's my job to bang my head against problems.
And it seems this is still a skill we are getting paid for! 
 My journey began with a bare-bones laptop and LAMP stack.
I had to implement guestbook 3 times before I got my first job offer: 
 
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