Essays & proud scars

Engineering management, identity, and the occasional bug worth telling the whole story about.

The deadline was game one Leadership

August 30, 2026

In 2018, four engineers and I had a few months to make a CDN do something it had never done, for the NBA Finals. Here is what the project taught me, including the parts I only understood much later.

In the critical path of evolution Leadership

August 23, 2026

Reorganizations land hardest on the teams that sit in the critical path of everything. Identity is the clearest example. What I learned, from both sides of the chart.

Write the exam, write the answer key, then sit the exam: why dogfooding really, really matters Engineering

August 14, 2026

I built a learning platform with two CI gates and a few thousand assertions, and it still shipped four exercises that failed even when I got the right answer. The missing ingredient wasn't more tests. It was dogfooding, and knowing when to stop.