What I learned moving into leadership: aligning product + engineering, setting quality bars (CI/CD), mentoring, and shipping reliably while still staying hands-on technically.
Leadership for me isn’t about meetings — it’s about building systems and teams that ship reliably. I stay hands-on because it keeps decisions grounded in reality.
- Clear delivery lanes: discovery → build → release
- CI/CD as a quality bar (not an afterthought)
- Code review culture (human + automation like CodeRabbit)
- Mentoring: raising the bar without slowing the team
- Metrics that matter: lead time, failure rate, p95 latency