Bio
I’m Mark, a software engineer who’s been building software professionally for more than two decades. I’ve worked everywhere from startups to large enterprises, shipping systems in finance, healthcare, retail, and manufacturing.
This blog isn’t about chasing the latest framework or predicting that AI will replace programmers next Tuesday. It’s about the things that actually matter: designing systems that survive contact with production, working with legacy code, using AI where it provides real leverage, and avoiding the expensive mistakes we’ve already made as an industry.
If you’ve ever inherited a 500,000-line codebase on a Friday afternoon, you’re in the right place.