lethain.com
Will Larson
CTO, Carta
Author of An Elegant Puzzle and Staff Engineer. Deep, systems-minded writing on engineering strategy, organizational design, and the realities of senior leadership.
charity.wtf
Charity Majors
CTO & Co-founder, Honeycomb
Blunt, funny essays on observability, on-call culture, and the management/engineering pendulum. Coined much of the modern thinking on the engineer-to-manager transition.
randsinrepose.com
Michael Lopp (Rands)
Eng Leader, ex-Slack/Apple/Pinterest
Rands in Repose. Long-running blog and home of the Rands Leadership Slack. Author of Managing Humans and The Art of Leadership.
larahogan.me
Lara Hogan
Management Coach, ex-VP Eng Kickstarter
Practical management craft: feedback, one-on-ones, sponsorship, and resilience. Author of Resilient Management and Demystifying Public Speaking.
patkua.com
Pat Kua
Fractional CTO, ex-Thoughtworks
Tech leadership writing and the Level Up newsletter. Author of The Retrospective Handbook and Talking with Tech Leads.
cate.blog
Cate Huston
Director of Engineering, DuckDuckGo
Accidentally in Code. Thoughtful pieces on engineering management, remote teams, and leading through ambiguity.
theengineeringmanager.com
James Stanier
SVP Engineering, Shopify
The Engineering Manager. Structured guidance for new and growing managers. Author of Become an Effective Software Engineering Manager.
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Jade Rubick
Eng Leadership Consultant, ex-VP Eng New Relic
Detailed, reusable playbooks on org design, operating cadences, and director-level systems thinking.
elidedbranches.com
Camille Fournier
Author, The Manager's Path; ex-CTO Rent the Runway
Elided Branches. Candid takes on management, distributed systems, and the politics of senior technical leadership.
kellanem.com
Kellan Elliott-McCrea
ex-CTO Etsy, VP Eng
Writing on engineering leadership, technical strategy, and what makes teams effective at scale.
noidea.dog
Tanya Reilly
Senior Principal Engineer, Squarespace
Author of The Staff Engineer's Path. Essays and talks (including 'Being Glue') on the invisible work that keeps teams running.
benkuhn.net
Ben Kuhn
CTO, Anthropic
Sharp, reflective essays on engineering management, productivity, and decision-making under uncertainty.
jacobian.org
Jacob Kaplan-Moss
ex-Director of Engineering, 18F; Django co-creator
A long body of writing on engineering management, hiring, leveling, and compensation that's widely cited in the field.
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Marcus Blankenship
Leadership Coach for Engineering Managers
Coaching-oriented writing aimed squarely at first-time and struggling engineering managers.
allenpike.com
Allen Pike
CEO, Steamclock Software
Essays on running an engineering team and company, technical craft, and leadership from a founder's seat.
philcalcado.com
Phil Calçado
ex-Director of Engineering, SoundCloud/DigitalOcean
Deep writing on microservices, platform engineering, and scaling engineering organizations.
brooker.co.za
Marc Brooker
VP & Distinguished Engineer, AWS
Rigorous posts on distributed systems, reliability, and the technical judgment expected of senior engineering leaders.
danluu.com
Dan Luu
Engineer & Writer, ex-Microsoft/Google
Data-driven, contrarian essays on engineering effectiveness, hiring, and organizational dysfunction.
vickiboykis.com
Vicki Boykis
ML Engineering Leader, Mozilla
Writing on machine learning systems, careers, and the craft of leading data and ML teams.
eugeneyan.com
Eugene Yan
Principal Applied Scientist, Amazon
Applied ML leadership: system design, mentoring, and how to ship machine learning that matters.
paperplanes.de
Mathias Meyer
ex-CEO, Travis CI
Paperplanes. Reflective writing on leadership, remote culture, and running an engineering company.
blog.pragmaticengineer.com
Gergely Orosz
Author, The Pragmatic Engineer; ex-EM Uber
The most-read engineering newsletter, with deep dives on Big Tech practices, leveling, and management.
jvns.ca
Julia Evans
Engineer & Writer, ex-Stripe
Beloved for clear technical explainers and honest reflections on growth, mentoring, and senior IC/lead work.
blog.nelhage.com
Nelson Elhage
Distinguished Engineer, ex-Stripe
Made of Bugs. Thoughtful essays on debugging, systems, and senior technical leadership.
longform.asmartbear.com
Jason Cohen
Founder, WP Engine
A Smart Bear. Long-form strategy on building products, teams, and companies from a serial technical founder.
joelonsoftware.com
Joel Spolsky
Co-founder, Stack Overflow / Fog Creek
Joel on Software. The canonical early blog on running engineering teams, hiring, and software management.
blog.codinghorror.com
Jeff Atwood
Co-founder, Stack Overflow & Discourse
Coding Horror. Widely-read essays on software craftsmanship, hiring, and leading developers.
kentbeck.com
Kent Beck
Creator of XP & TDD
One of the most influential voices in software methodology, now writing on tidying, design, and team practice.
journal.stuffwithstuff.com
Bob Nystrom
Tech Lead, Dart @ Google
Language design and engineering craft from a longtime tech lead and author of Crafting Interpreters.
apenwarr.ca
Avery Pennarun
CEO, Tailscale
Sprawling, original essays on engineering strategy, org dynamics, and the realities of building companies.
mtlynch.io
Michael Lynch
Founder, TinyPilot; ex-Google
Transparent writing on solo founding, hiring, and engineering management lessons from inside Big Tech.
macwright.com
Tom MacWright
Engineering Leader, ex-Observable/Mapbox
Essays on software, maps, and the day-to-day of leading product engineering teams.
simonwillison.net
Simon Willison
Director & Django co-creator
Prolific TILs and project write-ups; a model of how a senior technical leader works in the open.
martinfowler.com
Martin Fowler
Chief Scientist, Thoughtworks
The reference library for software architecture, refactoring, and technical leadership patterns.
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Swizec Teller
Senior Staff Engineer & Author
Senior Mindset writing connecting engineering craft with career growth into staff and leadership roles.
staysaasy.com
Stay SaaSy
Senior Eng & Product Leaders
Pseudonymous, hard-won lessons on leading engineering and product organizations at SaaS companies.
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Andrew Bosworth
CTO, Meta
Boz. Frank reflections on management, decision-making, and leadership from one of Meta's longest-tenured leaders.
amazingcto.com
Stephan Schmidt
CTO Coach & Fractional CTO
Amazing CTO. Direct, practical advice for CTOs and engineering leaders on tech, teams, and strategy.
architectelevator.com
Gregor Hohpe
Enterprise Strategist, ex-AWS/Google
The Architect Elevator. Connecting the penthouse and the engine room — architecture and organizational leadership.
samnewman.io
Sam Newman
Independent Consultant & Author
Author of Building Microservices. Writing on architecture, delivery, and leading technical change.
jessitron.com
Jessica Kerr
Engineering Leader & Sociotechnical Thinker
Jessitron. Systems thinking about software, teams, and the sociotechnical nature of engineering organizations.
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Yegor Bugayenko
Founder/CTO, Zerocracy
Opinionated, polarizing essays on management, object-oriented design, and how software teams should be run.
hillelwayne.com
Hillel Wayne
Consultant, Formal Methods
Rigorous writing on software correctness, the empirical claims of our field, and what senior engineers actually know.
world.hey.com
David Heinemeier Hansson
CTO, 37signals; creator of Rails
Provocative essays on running a calm, profitable engineering company on its own terms.
calpaterson.com
Cal Paterson
Engineer & Writer
Carefully argued essays on engineering practice, industry trends, and where conventional wisdom goes wrong.
willgallego.com
Will Gallego
Engineering Leader, ex-Etsy/Datadog
Writing on blameless culture, resilience engineering, and growing healthy engineering teams.
brodzinski.com
Pawel Brodzinski
CEO & Management Author
Long-running blog on management, Kanban, leadership, and building a humane company culture.
aphyr.com
Kyle Kingsbury
Distributed Systems Researcher (Jepsen)
Aphyr. The Jepsen analyses and essays that set the bar for technical rigor in distributed systems.
mattrickard.com
Matt Rickard
Founder & Engineer, ex-Google
Short, frequent essays on engineering, infrastructure, and the strategy of building technical products.
chriskiehl.com
Chris Kiehl
Senior/Principal Engineer, Amazon
Candid, widely-shared essays on engineering careers, productivity, and what a decade in the industry teaches.
jvt.me
Jamie Tanna
Principal Engineer
Open, detailed working notes on engineering practice, API design, and growing into senior technical roles.
loufranco.com
Lou Franco
Engineering Leader & Author
Writing on managing engineering teams, technical debt, and the craft of software leadership.
addyosmani.com
Addy Osmani
Engineering Leader, Chrome @ Google
Engineering leadership and web performance from a longtime Google Chrome leader and prolific author.
robertheaton.com
Robert Heaton
Software Engineer, ex-Stripe
Funny, instructive essays on engineering, security, and navigating a software career.
kalzumeus.com
Patrick McKenzie
Engineer & Writer, ex-Stripe
Foundational essays on salary negotiation, running software businesses, and the economics of engineering work.
allthingsdistributed.com
Werner Vogels
CTO, Amazon
All Things Distributed. Two decades of writing on distributed systems, scale, and the engineering principles behind AWS from Amazon's longtime CTO.
erikbern.com
Erik Bernhardsson
Founder/CEO Modal; ex-CTO Better
Data-rich, contrarian essays on engineering leadership, developer productivity, and building technical companies.
mitchellh.com
Mitchell Hashimoto
Founder, HashiCorp
Reflections on founding HashiCorp, returning to hands-on engineering, and building developer tooling like Ghostty.
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David Cramer
Co-founder/CTO, Sentry
Writing on engineering culture, open source business, and leading product engineering from a founder-CTO's seat.
lucumr.pocoo.org
Armin Ronacher
Principal Architect, Sentry
The Flask creator on language design, architecture, and the technical judgment of a principal-level engineer.
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Guillermo Rauch
CEO, Vercel
Essays on shipping, developer experience, and engineering leadership from the founder of Vercel and Next.js.
brendangregg.com
Brendan Gregg
Performance Engineer, Intel; ex-Netflix
The definitive resource on systems performance, observability, and the deep technical craft senior leaders rely on.
steve-yegge.blogspot.com
Steve Yegge
Engineer & Leader, ex-Google/Grab/Sourcegraph
Stevey's legendary long-form rants on engineering culture, platforms, and the realities of life at Big Tech.
hanselman.com
Scott Hanselman
VP of Developer Community, Microsoft
A long-running blog on developer productivity, leadership, and being effective — including the famous 'keystroke' essays.
blog.jessfraz.com
Jessie Frazelle
Co-founder, Oxide Computer
Deep systems writing on containers, hardware, and engineering leadership from a co-founder of Oxide.
sophiebits.com
Sophie Alpert
ex-Engineering Manager, React @ Meta
Writing on frontend engineering, management, and leading high-impact infrastructure teams.
overreacted.io
Dan Abramov
Engineer, ex-React core team
Overreacted. Patient, first-principles essays on JavaScript, abstractions, and how senior engineers think.
steveklabnik.com
Steve Klabnik
Rust core team alumnus
Essays on Rust, documentation, open source governance, and the social side of engineering.
research.swtch.com
Russ Cox
Go Tech Lead, Google
research!rsc. Rigorous deep dives on Go, version control, and the engineering decisions behind major systems.
antirez.com
Salvatore Sanfilippo
Creator of Redis
antirez. Candid reflections on systems programming, open source stewardship, and the craft of building Redis.
daniel.haxx.se
Daniel Stenberg
Lead Developer, curl
Decades of writing on networking, open source maintenance, and sustaining one of the world's most-used libraries.
drewdevault.com
Drew DeVault
Founder, SourceHut
Opinionated essays on open source, sustainable software, and running an engineering-first company.
nickcraver.com
Nick Craver
Architecture Lead, ex-Stack Overflow
Famous deep dives into Stack Overflow's architecture and the engineering decisions that kept it fast and lean.
brandur.org
Brandur Leach
Engineer, Crunchy Data; ex-Stripe
Carefully crafted essays on API design, Postgres, idempotency, and building reliable production systems.
zachholman.com
Zach Holman
Engineer & Startup Advisor, ex-GitHub
Sharp, funny writing on startups, firing, equity, and the engineering culture lessons from early GitHub.
tom.preston-werner.com
Tom Preston-Werner
Co-founder, GitHub
Essays on open source, optimizing for happiness, and the founding engineering principles of GitHub.
sandimetz.com
Sandi Metz
Author, Practical Object-Oriented Design
Clear, principled writing on object-oriented design, refactoring, and writing code teams can live with.
avdi.codes
Avdi Grimm
Engineering Leader & Author
Writing on Ruby, software design, and the working life of a senior engineer and team lead.
caitiem20.wordpress.com
Caitie McCaffrey
Distributed Systems Engineering Leader
Talks and essays on distributed systems, stateful services, and building and leading platform teams.
peter.bourgon.org
Peter Bourgon
Distributed Systems Engineer (Go)
Influential writing on Go best practices, distributed systems, and pragmatic engineering at scale.
paulirish.com
Paul Irish
Engineering Lead, Chrome @ Google
Web performance and developer-tooling writing from a longtime leader on the Google Chrome team.
csswizardry.com
Harry Roberts
Consultant Performance Engineer
CSS Wizardry. Deep, consultancy-grade writing on web performance and front-end architecture at scale.
mattcutts.com
Matt Cutts
ex-Administrator, US Digital Service
Engineering leadership and public-service tech from a former Google engineer who led the US Digital Service.
jeffgeerling.com
Jeff Geerling
Engineer & Author, DevOps/Ansible
Hands-on writing on automation, infrastructure, and open source from a prolific engineer-author.
verraes.net
Mathias Verraes
Domain-Driven Design Consultant
Writing on domain modeling, software design, and the strategic side of engineering for complex businesses.
thagomizer.com
Aja Hammerly
Engineering Leader, Google Cloud
Thagomizer. Writing on developer relations, cloud engineering, and leading technical teams.
jakearchibald.com
Jake Archibald
Web Platform Engineer, ex-Google
Deep, playful explorations of browser internals, performance, and the web platform.
surma.dev
Surma
Engineer, ex-Shopify/Google
Writing on web performance, WebAssembly, and the hard parts of building for the modern web platform.
nadia.xyz
Nadia Asparouhova
Open Source Researcher & Author
Author of Working in Public. Research on the economics and social structures of open source communities.
cassidoo.co
Cassidy Williams
ex-CTO Contenda; DevRel Leader
Engineering, developer experience, and career writing from a longtime DevRel and engineering leader.
swyx.io
Shawn Wang (swyx)
Engineering Leader & Writer, ex-Temporal
Writing on the 'Learn in Public' ethos, developer experience, and the business of engineering careers.
fasterthanli.me
Amos Wenger
Systems Engineer & Writer
Long, immersive deep dives on Rust, systems programming, and how things really work under the hood.
xeiaso.net
Xe Iaso
Engineer, Tigris; ex-Tailscale
Thoughtful, personal writing on infrastructure, developer tooling, and the craft of software.
words.filippo.io
Filippo Valsorda
Cryptography Engineer, ex-Go team
Writing on applied cryptography, Go, and sustaining critical open source as a full-time maintainer.
huyenchip.com
Chip Huyen
ML Engineering Leader & Author
Author of Designing Machine Learning Systems. Writing on ML systems, MLOps, and leading AI engineering.
lilianweng.github.io
Lilian Weng
ex-VP of AI Safety, OpenAI
Lil'Log. Rigorous, widely-cited deep dives on machine learning, agents, and AI research.
sebastianraschka.com
Sebastian Raschka
ML Researcher & Author
Clear, in-depth writing on machine learning, LLMs, and the engineering behind training models.
morling.dev
Gunnar Morling
Software Engineer, Decodable
Writing on data streaming, Java, and open source engineering from a longtime systems engineer.
ghuntley.com
Geoffrey Huntley
Engineering Leader & Advisor
Writing on AI-assisted engineering, developer tooling, and the changing shape of software work.
blog4ems.com
Stephane Moreau
Senior Engineering Manager, Zopa Bank
Blog for Engineering Managers. Practical guidance on hiring, execution, and management frameworks for engineers stepping into leadership and for managers refining how they run a team.
modernleader.is
Kelly Vaughn
Sr. Engineering Manager, Zapier
The Modern Leader. Writing for engineering leaders navigating AI, organizational design, and modern software teams — management fundamentals, tough conversations, and career visibility.
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