Engineering leader. 15 years building teams at Square, DoorDash, and high-growth startups.
Currently Director of Engineering at Mudflap. Built and scaled teams of 20+. I'm rethinking how engineering teams work with AI and writing about what I'm learning.
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FEB 27, 2026 Most teams are using AI wrong
The teams getting real leverage from AI aren't the ones with the best tools. They're the ones who rethought how work gets done.
JAN 29, 2026
The alignment problem isn't technical
Most alignment failures aren't disagreements. They're translations that never happened. Everyone agreed on words, not on meaning.
JAN 15, 2026
Smaller teams, faster learning
AI made your team faster. So why does everything feel more chaotic? The answer isn't more process — it's restructuring the unit of execution.
AUG 31, 2020
Quality vs Speed in software development: Reframing the debate
The trade-off isn't between speed and quality. It's between speed now and speed later — and most teams get the balance wrong.
AUG 8, 2020
Simplicity
Complexity is a disease. Simplicity is the cure — but it requires getting into the details, not away from them.
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