A reflection on invisible work in platform and data engineering teams: why success often looks like silence, why the work-speaks-for-itself instinct breaks at the senior-to-staff transition, and what I have tried to make my work more legible to people I don't sit next to.
A reflection on meeting overload: why every invitation deserves real scrutiny, why three to four meetings a day make focused engineering work much harder, and why leaving the room when I cannot contribute can be the responsible move.
A reflection on knowledge silos in engineering teams: why they often start as responsibility rather than ego, and what helps spread context before one person becomes the queue.
The second part of a series on engineering effectiveness anti-patterns, focused on what happens when we keep postponing system health in favor of short-term feature delivery.
The first part of a series on engineering effectiveness anti-patterns, focused on how constant context switching quietly erodes focus, depth, and overall effectiveness in day-to-day engineering work.