Engineering leadership,
in production.
15 years of shipping distributed systems at Amazon and Oracle. Now writing about what AI tooling does to that job — and breaking into things on the weekends to stay sharp.
Selected work, written up.
Holding the line: 11 years on a tier-1 AWS service
What I learned operating a high-throughput AWS service from 2012 to 2023 — the parts that don't show up in postmortems.
Going from IC to EM without losing the plot
Six things I wish I'd been told when I made the transition from senior IC to engineering manager.
Recent posts.
AI-assisted code review is changing what 'reviewer' means
Three months of running an AI-assisted review workflow on a real team. What's better, what's worse, and what I'm watching.
Why I do TryHackMe on weekends as an engineering manager
It's not for a career change. It's because management makes you stupid in specific ways, and offensive security is a cheap way to stay sharp.
Hello, again
Why this site exists, what's going on it, and the bar I'm holding myself to.
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