I Joined Patrick Akil on the Beyond Coding Podcast »

I recently joined Patrick Akil on Beyond Coding post. A podcast he created for software engineers who want to grow past writing code: technical mastery, AI, product thinking, and career growth. Over 270 episodes in, he’s interviewed CTOs, principal engineers, and tech …


Interview Series - From Classical Guitar to Ruby on Rails »

A professional musician turned software engineer - on career pivots, side projects, and building with AI.

Preamble This conversation tracks an engineer who started professional software development in October 2022 - two months before ChatGPT shipped. He arrived from outside the field with a music bachelor’s and a few years as a working classical guitarist. Four years on, he …


Interview Series - From Classical Guitar to Ruby on Rails »

Eike Rackwitz spent years as a professional classical guitarist in academia and music. When Covid hit, he decided to pivot towards software engineering. Four years later, he’s a senior software engineer who runs an LLM-powered search engine with half a million sheet-music …


Interview Series - Working with an SRE »

Preamble In this insightful interview, Paul Bütow, a Principal Site Reliability Engineer at Mimecast, shares over a decade of experience in the field. Paul highlights the role of an Embedded SRE, emphasizing the importance of automation, observability, and effective incident …