A guest lecture at COMSATS on how mid-career engineers can move into architecture roles.
How to move from pre-sales engineering into an architecture role without taking a step backward.
Pre-sales teaches you to understand customers, translate business problems into technical ones, and communicate across disciplines. Those skills are foundational for architecture.
Customer empathy transfers. Speed of understanding transfers. Imposter syndrome also transfers—but it's unfounded. You know how to learn quickly. Architecture is just learning on a larger scale.
We walked through three engineer stories: one who moved too fast and burned out, one who moved too slow and got left behind, and one who got the pace right.
A walkthrough of the state machine, audio pipeline, and fallback design I use for Chasyr.
When RAG actually beats fine-tuning, when it doesn't, and how to tell which one you need.
The exact prompts and CI workflows my team runs on every PR. Copy-paste, MIT licensed.
The boilerplate I clone for every new SaaS bet. Auth, billing, RLS, AI hooks pre-wired.
How I restructured a 7-person team around AI tooling. Velocity numbers, cultural pitfalls, what worked.
Panel at AusFinTech 2026 - the legal, technical, and ethical scaffolding for AI that talks to customers.
A handful of titles - short list, opinionated commentary, no affiliate nonsense.
My exact dev stack - IDE, terminal, AI agents, productivity hacks. Updated quarterly.
Papers, blog posts, and talks I send every engineer I mentor on getting up to speed with AI.
Remote-friendly companies, visa sponsors, OSS scholarships - things I wish I had a decade ago.