The 1:1 Scramble
July 8, 2026

Engineering managers, including me, are lying when we say we are fully prepared for the 1:1s. That version of the meeting is genuinely hard to reach at scale.

The Full-Day Trap
June 29, 2026

I spend at least an hour every Friday just figuring out what my week actually was. This is not a time management problem. It's a context problem.

From Threads to Drones: Learning Distributed Systems by Building
April 30, 2026

Three grad school projects at different layers of the stack — from OpenMP internals to cloud orchestration to autonomous drone swarms at Kennedy Space Center.

Why I'm writing again
April 5, 2026

After years away from writing, here's why I'm starting again — and what this blog is for.