If agents can produce software faster than humans can inspect it, code review cannot remain the primary mechanism for establishing quality. I'm building a living catalog of the signals we can use to assess software without reading every line of it.
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Engineering Productivity
What actually makes an engineer faster? A framework for thinking about friction, leverage, feedback, and confidence in software production.
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Agentic Software Engineering
What changes when implementation becomes cheap? Experiments and observations from building increasingly autonomous software-development workflows.
Reliability, platforms, developer experience, automation, quality systems, and now agents are all parts of the same work: increasing the productive capacity of software engineers. These selected career chapters explore that question at a different scale.
Build software at global scale
Web Developer / Software Engineer · Huge, Invite Media, Google
At Google, I learned distributed systems—and respect for code as a craft: the disciplined engineering that makes complex systems dependable over time.
Learn software delivery and lead a team
Early Employee / Director of Engineering · Sprint.ly, Quick Left
Making a small software team work together: flow, delivery, and a front-row education in the economics and tradeoffs of running a startup business.
Make production systems reliable at scale
Software Development Engineer · Amazon
From initial commit to re:Invent launch, built AWS MediaStore: a live-video system handling 10K TPS that streamed the Super Bowl.
Make large systems changeable
Principal Engineer · Walmart
Merged Walmart and Jet's mobile stacks by putting two enormous backend-for-frontend systems behind GraphQL—a difficult architectural unification that made one app possible.
Make engineering organizations measurable
Principal Member of Technical Staff, Architect & OSPO Chair · eBay
Modernized delivery in payments: sixfold more deploys, with 72% of applications (934 of 1,301) deploying automatically after merge.
Encode good engineering practice into the platform
Principal Engineer, Developer Productivity · Thrive Market
Built Trellis, a self-service Kubernetes/GitOps platform that teams began requesting within two months—then used that foundation to nearly double throughput.
Make software production abundant — and measurable
Principal Engineer · Parloa
Investigating how agents change software delivery, and what sensors let us assess the quality of what they produce.