The Optimist Engineer
Marcos F. Lobo \ud83d\uddfb\ud83e\udded, Jorge Castaño, Julia | Taking you globalExperiences, learnings, and inspiration about Software Engineering, Technical Leadership, and Technical Growth, with a bit of optimism. Interesting for Tech Leads and software makers from Startups to medium-sized companies.
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Stop Building Distributed Monoliths: How to Find Real Business Boundaries
I’ve seen teams spend (waste?) time in multiple meetings debating Kafka, Kubernetes, REST, GraphQL, PostgreSQL, DynamoDB, and every other technology under the sun.
And then fail because they didn’t understand the business they were buildin...
Shifting left your effort when working with AI
In my teams, we are in continuous evolution. Since we started using AI for all our development, we've gained a lot of insights. More to come, for sure, since we cannot consider ourselves experts.
If you're a software developer overwhelmed...
The importance of adapting the message to the listener
The way you talk, the visual artifacts you use, and your body language should be adapted to your target audience. Otherwise, one of the many issues you might face is that the conversation will lose focus on meaningful conversations.
In tod...
Scale Up your Start Up
A person reached out to me 1 month ago:
Marcos, we are a 5-person startup, and it’s time to scale up our organization… because the money came in!
First, I said:
Congratulations!
Second, it was about working together on a proposal to...
First Graduates: How Tech Companies Promote Software Engineers
Today’s issue is coming from my last talk at the University of Oviedo. In March 2026, I had the opportunity to give a talk to students at the Escuela de Informática de Oviedo, part of the University of Oviedo. In that session, I talked abou...
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Senior Software Engineer and Tech Lead with 20+ years of experience. Currently building a SaaS product on a cloud-based microservices architecture. Previously worked at CERN managing OpenStack services in the IT CLOUD group.
Desarrollo software. Hablo.
Helping global teams survive (and lead) the AI takeover.
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