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From Esports to Tech Lead
Two years of competitive gaming taught me more about leading a dev team than any course ever could.
The scrim room and the standup have more in common than you'd think
2021 to 2022, I lived and breathed competitive esports. Late night scrims, reviewing VODs, arguing about strategy at 1am. Looking back, that was basically my first job in high-pressure decision making, I just didn't know it yet.
When people ask how I ended up leading a technical team so fast, I don't point to a bootcamp or a certificate. I point to hundreds of hours of making calls under pressure with incomplete information and living with the outcome.
- Reading the room before reacting, whether it's a teammate or a teammate's pull request
- Staying calm when everything is going wrong at once
- Reviewing 'replays' - in dev terms, that's post-mortems and incident reports
- Knowing when to trust your team's call over your own instinct
Competitive gaming doesn't teach you to win. It teaches you to lose fast and adjust faster.
So when I stepped into leading 8-10 engineers at Gohil Infotech, it didn't feel like a leap. It felt like switching games, same muscles, different scoreboard.
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