Leadership & Team Building
Growing engineering teams, hiring, culture, and technical leadership.
What 3 A.M. Incidents Taught Me That AWS Certifications Never Did
Twenty production incidents reviewed: why understanding beats fixing, what certifications actually train, and the habits that keep a team calm at 3 a.m.
I Reviewed 400 CVs to Hire 5 Engineers in Qatar. Here's What Stood Out
One quarter of hiring in Doha: the funnel numbers, the signals that predicted great engineers, the red flags that never failed, and what did not matter.
Scaling an Engineering Team from 5 to 30 Without Losing the Plot
The systems, hiring principles, and cultural habits that keep an engineering organization fast as it grows, from a CTO who has lived through the transitions.
