PhD to Industry: Engineering and Research Roles
2 min read The PhD-to-industry transition is well-trodden but not always smooth. Some PhDs land high-comp research roles at frontier AI labs; others […] Read article
Returnship & Late-Career
Returnship & Late-Career
Late-Career Tech: Government and Public-Sector Roles
2 min read For late-career engineers tired of the venture-funded grind, government and public-sector tech offers a different path. The work matters in Read article
Returnship & Late-Career
Veteran-to-Tech Career Transition: A Realistic Guide
3 min read The US military produces a lot of disciplined, technical, mission-driven people who would thrive in tech. But the transition is Read article
Returnship & Late-Career
International Engineers Returning to US Tech: Visa, Resume, and Re-Entry
3 min read Many engineers spend part of their career outside the US — by choice, by family, by geography. Returning to a Read article
Returnship & Late-Career
Returning to Tech After a Failed Startup
3 min read Founding a startup is often pitched as a one-way door, but in practice it is two-way: many founders return to Read article
Engineering Manager
The Engineering Manager Week: Operating Cadence
2 min read One of the under-discussed skills of engineering management is calendar discipline. Without it, your week becomes a slurry of meetings, Read article
Engineering Manager
EM and Architecture Review Boards: When and How
3 min read Architecture Review Boards (ARBs) — sometimes called Tech Review Committees, Design Review Forums, or “the architects” — are the bodies Read article
Engineering Manager
Production Readiness Reviews: An EM’s Guide
2 min read A production readiness review (PRR) is a structured assessment before launching a new service or major feature. The discipline catches Read article
Engineering Manager
Working with Founders and Executives as an EM
3 min read Working with founders is its own discipline. Founders are typically high-conviction, high-velocity, and deeply attached to their own ideas. EMs Read article
Engineering Manager
OKR Planning for Engineering Teams: A Manager’s Guide
3 min read OKRs (Objectives and Key Results) remain the most common quarterly planning framework at growing tech companies. Done well, they align Read article
Engineering Manager
Taking Over a Struggling Team: An EM Playbook
3 min read Sometimes you join a team that is already in trouble. Morale is low, velocity is poor, the prior manager left Read article
Frontend Engineering
Frontend State Management: When to Use What
3 min read The state management landscape has consolidated significantly. The “Redux for everything” era is over; modern apps use specialized tools per Read article
Frontend Engineering
TypeScript Advanced Patterns: Generics, Types as Tests
3 min read TypeScript fluency is now baseline for senior frontend roles. Beyond the basics (interfaces, type aliases, basic generics), interviews probe whether Read article
Frontend Engineering
Building a Virtualized Data Table: Sorting, Filtering, Selection
2 min read Data tables are one of the most-built and most-broken UI components. The naive implementation breaks at 1,000 rows. The interview Read article
Frontend Engineering
Frontend Build Tools: Vite, Turbopack, and the Modern Pipeline
3 min read The frontend build tooling landscape has consolidated significantly. The dev server experience that took two minutes to start in 2020 Read article