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<p>Manoj Mahalingam is a Principal Engineer at <ahref="https://www.avalara.com">Avalara</a>. Previously, he worked with <ahref="https://www.indix.com">Indix</a> as a Principal Engineer and with <ahref="http://www.thoughtworks.com">ThoughtWorks</a> as a Senior Application Developer.</p>
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<p>It started out as a fun past-time. It grew because I had better Googling skills. It ended up being the primary place I learn things from ( and also, remember forever things I tend to quickly forget. )</p>
<p>I am talking about answering questions at StackOverflow. I was reaping the benefits of the amazing content at StackOverflow and one day I thought it would be fun to see if I can answer few questions. The whole gamification of Q&A at StackOverflow, with the votes and badges, was luring. So where to begin? I started following few tags ( that included C#, svn, teamcity, regex etc.) that I felt I had a chance at answering. I realized pretty early on that StackOverflow is very competitive in C# and, to a lesser extent, .NET. That is to be expected, given its origins. So answering questions in C#, along with the big fishes ( well, mainly Jon Skeet) was really really tough. So I started treading the relatively less popular tags like TeamCity. Since I was actively using TeamCity at that time, it was easy pickings. Slowly, the answers came through and as my reputation started growing, so did my confidence ( it can be pretty frustrating when people start downvoting you for what, to you, seems like the perfect answer.) I started moving into tags that I had very little knowledge on. This included git, and Powershell, two tools that I started to pick up in my projects.</p>
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