Engineering leadership from a principal engineer: a multi-brand Next.js platform, a principal engineer’s toolbox, product bets and leading with AI.
4 posts tagged with “Engineering Leadership”
Three days at a Product Summit — 1H reflection, 2H big bets, and a day of open proposals — left me with more questions about engineering than about product. Notes on the gaps between top-down and bottom-up, early and burned-out AI adopters, and what a "bet" actually is.
I built a three-platform AI product alone for $725 of tooling and under $45/month to run. The interesting part was never the speed — it was what it changed about how I would lead a team.
Three years modernizing a multi-brand healthcare platform — what I learned about monorepos, GraphQL gateways, and why sharing packages beats sharing apps.
What I've learned about building systems, patterns, and clarity in a multi-brand environment