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Singapore 2023

It’s good to get out of the house every now and then

As a Product Manager at Appdome, I’ve had the opportunity to attend several conferences this year. I recently traveled to Singapore for two different events: CloudWorld Asia …

Posted by Kurt Dusek on Tue, Nov 21, 2023

A Review of WeAreDevelopers 2023

Maybe my new favorite tech conference

Tech conferences usually fall into one of two categories: vendor-centric and user-centric. Vendor-centric conferences are about showing what’s new with the product and …

Posted by Kurt Dusek on Wed, Aug 2, 2023

Win small (and often): Key takeaways from two weeks shadowing the CEO of GitLab

Like a semester of business school in 2 weeks

In December I participated in GitLab’s CEO Shadow program. To say “I learned a lot” would be a massive understatement; it felt like a semester of business school …

Posted by Kurt Dusek on Thu, Jan 19, 2023

How to improve the developer experience

Happy developers are an asset to the business

A positive developer experience keeps retention high, boosts productivity, and minimizes rework. It’s a lofty goal and there’s a wide range of ambiguous guidance; for …

Posted by Kurt Dusek on Mon, Dec 19, 2022

Four facets of GitLab integration

Solving for X: Where X can be (almost) any platform or software

In my day job as an Alliance Solutions Architect with GitLab, I often get asked, “How do we integrate X with GitLab?” GitLab is a DevSecOps platform, for many …

Posted by Kurt Dusek on Sun, Dec 11, 2022

Where it all started

Back in 2002, newspapers were still a thing, GTA: Vice City was the most controversial issue in tech and I was a Computer Science student building my first web startup: …

Posted by Kurt Dusek on Mon, Nov 28, 2022

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ABOUT ME

I'm Kurt Dusek, a Senior Product Manager at Appdome, among other things.