Being a part of a fast-growing company is an amazing experience but a challenging one as well. In a reality where your engineering doubles itself every few months, You experience an interesting side-effect that at any given time roughly 50% of your team is new.

So how can you build a codebase that can support a fast-growing company? I believe it’s all about empathy. It's about writing code that guides developers to make the right choices even when you are not by their side. It’s about making context visible in your code, it’s about helping developers focus on ‘how’ instead of ‘where’, ‘what’ or ‘why’.

In this talk, I’ll share some principles I’ve learned along the way on transforming our codebase for growth.