My path to Amazon: the final stretch — landing Amazon
June 21, 2025This is Part 3 of 3 in a series of articles detailing my journey to Amazon. This part contains my experience on the actual steps on breaking into FAANG...
My path to Amazon: breaking into the tech industry
June 19, 2025This is Part 2 of 3 in a series of articles detailing my journey to Amazon. In this part of the journey, I share how I landed my first programming job early on the path to Amazon...
My path to Amazon: from math notebooks to 'Hello World'
June 18, 2025It has been 3 years since I have been working at Amazon, but I realized I have never talked about my path towards Amazon. This is Part 1 of 3 in a series of articles detailing my journey to Amazon.
General proof for the lower bound of comparison based sorting algorithms using decision trees
May 18, 2023A proper mathematical proof that we cannot go faster than the hard limit of Big Omega (n*logn) with any of the comparison based sorting algorithms.
Elasticsearch: how to update mapping for existing fields?
March 19, 2022Elasticsearch uses a term called a "mapping" for defining data types for the fields in your index. It can be tricky to update it for existing fields in your index. Let's see how we can do it.
How to integrate Node.js with UHF RFID reader?
December 12, 2021Two years ago, I was working on a project to automate library operations. One of the main components of the system, namely, borrowing and returning books, relied on uniquely identifying each book by reading its unique RFID tags glued on its cover...
Hello World
November 07, 2021Intro Hello World! 👋 I am excited to see you on my personal engineering blog! My name is Azamat, ex-Computer Science student and currently…