Thoughts on engineering

By Dima Barabash

Notes and experiments from building software end-to-end — mostly on engineering leadership, technical hiring, and what healthy teams actually look like underneath the dashboards.

  • Pencils down: what I took from DHH's Rails World 2026 keynote
    Sep 27, 2026
  • Hire based on the conversation about code, not the code itself
    Feb 9, 2026
  • Your engineering team looks healthy. It probably isn't
    Dec 28, 2025