About
Notes from the intersection of engineering leadership, AI and building things.
I’m an engineering manager who writes about the parts of the job that don’t fit neatly into a ticket: building high-performing teams, giving honest feedback, running agile well, and — increasingly — figuring out where AI genuinely helps and where it just adds cost.
Career Catalogue is where I keep those notes. Some posts are practical playbooks (Definition of Done, the daily scrum, hiring for attrition), some are more reflective (passion and burnout, living in the present), and a growing set is technical: retrieval-augmented generation, semantic caching, MCP servers, fuzzy search, and the lessons from running squads of AI agents.
On the side, I experiment with AI and have been investigating agentic workflows through my game PocketRPG, which is played by 100s of people world-wide.
Topics I come back to
- Engineering leadership — feedback, motivation, and the culture that makes teams great
- Agile delivery — done right, not by ceremony
- Applied AI — architecture, cost, and where it earns its keep
- Craft — testing, design patterns, and defensive programming