Leadership
The importance of soft skills for Tech Lead
The standard career path for an engineer usually leads to the role of tech lead, but this promotion can create…
Author: Edvaldo Freitas
Code Review
The limitations of using only Claude for code security review
The first time you see an AI comment on a pull request, the feedback loop stands out. A full review…
Leadership
Building a strong engineering culture at scale
The moment something starts to slip rarely shows up as a big event. It is usually a pull request that…
Leadership
How to manage technical debt in a fast growing environment
When you are scaling fast, the pressure to ship new features is constant. At first, it feels like everything is…
Code Review
Balancing delivery speed and code quality in scaling startups
In a fast-growing startup, the default mode is almost always to ship as quickly as possible. There is a feature…
Leadership
Monorepo vs. multiple repositories: what’s the best strategy for a growing codebase?
The repository structure that works for a two-person startup almost never works for a fifty-person engineering team. What starts as…
Leadership
Technical debt vs. new features: how to set priorities
Every planning meeting seems to end up in the same place. Engineering brings up a legacy service that’s getting slower…
Code Review
How to scale code review in a growing team
A pull request opens, and the review requests go out to the same two or three senior engineers. A day…
Leadership
Avoiding knowledge silos in growing engineering teams
When an engineering team grows from five to fifteen, the informal communication channels that once worked perfectly start to break…