career

A handbook for the informal fast track: recognise the Solver role, codify its operating model before the role calcifies, and time it against the title-and-pay talk.

career · engineering-management · organizational-design +1

Why the salary-vs-impact-vs-satisfaction debate is a false trichotomy, and what your answer reveals about your vocational development stage.

career · team-dynamics · developer-experience +1

An analysis of the DevRel role, how it differs from marketing and sales engineering, the skills it needs, and when companies should invest in it.

career · developer-experience · engineering-culture

How the Forward Deployed Engineer role differs from Solutions Architect and Technical Account Manager, and why AI implementation made this hybrid role essential.

career · ai-adoption-strategy · enterprise

An analysis of bait-and-switch hiring, power imbalances, and underemployment, with actionable frameworks for employees to protect themselves and employers to build trust.

hiring · career · team-dynamics +3

A practical guide to Mozilla SOPS for encrypting secrets in Git: age encryption, AWS CDK and Lambda patterns, and production-ready serverless security.

secrets-management · ci-cd · terraform +7

A practical guide to career progression across major tech companies: understanding level equivalencies and making strategic decisions about your engineering path.

career · industry-trends