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01
Jun 10, 2025
4 min read
Real Engineering Lessons
I worked on moving a deployment process from checklists and individual machines to CI/CD pipelines. Over time, we reduced the manual work by around 70%.
02
Dec 3, 2024
4 min read
Production, Reliability, and Scale
Real data, concurrent requests and a slower dependency exposed several assumptions we hadn’t reproduced together in testing. The API failures only appeared when those conditions met.
03
Apr 16, 2024
4 min read
Career Growth and Technical Leadership
Some useful code reviews didn’t find a bug. They found an assumption, added context or helped two engineers understand the behavior better.