Posts
Musings on systems thinking, software, and shaping impact
- In the Age of AI, I Built a Retry Queue by Hand — and It Felt Amazing
- The Samurai Engineer: 7 Japanese Philosophies for Technical Mastery
- Building Managers of One - Forget the Org Charts
- Why Your AI Agents Need Circuit Breakers Before They Burn You
- From Org Charts to Impact: Moving Software Architects Beyond Titles
- Reliable AI Starts with Idempotency, Not Bigger Models
- The model isn't the problem- Weak Distributed System Foundations
- Stop Chasing Titles—Start Choosing Impactful Problems
- Your Architecture Is Broken If Your Team Can’t Debug It
- Shaping Engineering Culture Without Formal Authority: Creating Islands of Excellence
- How to Build, Lead, and Thrive Without Apologizing for It
- Move Fast, Don’t Build Regret: Why Integrity Beats Convenience in Architecture
- Hire for the Team You Want to Lead — Not the One You’re Willing to Settle For
- Speed Is a Feature: How High-Leverage Engineers Build Momentum from Zero to Scale
- Staff Engineer Skills Aren’t Magical — They’re Built 1 Small Win at a Time
- Playing to Win vs Playing Not to Lose What F1 Can Teach Software Teams
- The Silent Cost of Too Many Priorities
- What I Learned from Reading the Bigtable Paper
- Managing Multiple Git Accounts
- Working for Unicorn
- CreditMantri Days