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Things I learned while building, operating, modernizing, and occasionally debugging software that people actually depend on.
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4 POSTS
01
Mar 10, 2026
3 min read
Career Growth and Technical Leadership
Most of what I learned came from changing systems that already had users, history and dependencies. I also stayed long enough to maintain some of my own earlier decisions.
02
Jul 15, 2025
3 min read
Career Growth and Technical Leadership
I could make some technical decisions based on experience, but explaining them to another engineer showed me when my reasoning wasn’t clear enough.
03
Jan 21, 2025
3 min read
Career Growth and Technical Leadership
People started bringing me difficult questions, and I learned that being useful didn’t mean having an immediate answer. Sometimes it meant helping the team understand the problem first.
04
Mar 21, 2023
2 min read
Career Growth and Technical Leadership
My work changed when I stopped treating a merged pull request as the end of a task. I started looking at how the change would behave in production and affect the rest of the system.