The Pipeline Was Green
An AI agent upgraded a Helm chart, the pipeline said green, and QA was broken for three days. The first instinct was to lock everything down. The better answer was harder to accept.
Engineering Leadership
Layers Made It Universal. Harnesses Made It Run
What harness engineering looks like when the work is infrastructure, not application code.
Full Attendance, Zero Presence
Most listening advice says add behaviors. The real fix is the opposite — stop doing everything else.
Flip the Axis: A Layer-Based Approach to Multi-Service Migrations
How parallelizing by step instead of by service helped a half-sized team do twice the work
Positional Dominance Is Making You a Worse Engineer
When a teammate proposed a better design than mine, my first instinct was to defend my own — not because of logic, but because it was his idea, not mine.
Delegate for Growth: Scaling Your Impact Through Others
As senior engineers, we often hit the ceiling at some point: our individual output is high, but writing more code or spinning up one more cluster does not feel like the best way to make more impact. A more significant impact comes from multiplying our efforts. But how do you do that without a team reporting to you? How do you effectively involve peers in your projects, influencing their priorities when you don’t control their backlog or performance review? ...