The Leadership Lens
Shamim RajaniStarted with one email and one client. Two decades later, I’m still building, still learning, and still cheering on women who want to lead. Every Friday, I share what I’ve learned—so you can skip the mistakes and keep the wisdom.
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Congratulations, you’ve just added an experienced engineer to your team.
They have the technical expertise you were looking for, they’re ready to get started, and the hiring part is done. So, what comes next?
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When Women Believe in Women, Everything Changes
I sat across from a young woman last month who couldn’t have been more than 24, who told me she was thinking about leaving engineering. She was brilliant, Technical, sharp, and thoughtful.
But somewhere between her entry into the tech sect...
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10 Things Every Business Should Check Before Trusting a Software Development Company
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Nearly every software development company claims to be the best. But after years of watching businesses choose partners, get burned, and start over, we’ve learned that “the best” could be a marketing claim as well.
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From Demo to Disaster: Why RAG Breaks in Production
Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) has become one of the most practical approaches for deploying enterprise AI. Instead of relying on a LLM’s training data, RAG allows models to retrieve information from external knowledge bases before ge...
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