About Between Code and Culture

Between code and culture, there’s a space where most of the real work happens.

This publication lives there.

I write for the people in the trenches—the engineers, operators, project wranglers, accidental heroes, arsonistic firefighters, glue humans, future leaders, and anyone who has ever fixed a broken process at 11pm because “nobody else was going to do it.”

If you’ve ever sat in a meeting and thought:

“This could’ve been an email, a diagram, or better yet—an actual decision,”

you’re in the right place.

What you’ll find here

I break down the human systems inside tech: how decisions get made, how teams fall out of sync, why alignment feels like herding caffeinated cats, and what great leadership actually looks like when you’re not wearing a VC-friendly blazer.

Expect stories from the field, operator truths, frameworks that won’t waste your time, and the occasional metaphor I absolutely should have workshopped before publishing.

Who I am

I’m an engineering and operations leader who spends my days building teams, untangling cross-functional confusion, and helping humans work better together. I believe leadership is a craft, and it starts long before someone hands you a title.

I write because I’ve seen brilliant people burn out, stay silent, or shrink themselves when what they really needed was clarity, context, or simply someone to say, “No, you’re not crazy—that’s actually a system problem.”

Why this substack exists

There’s plenty of leadership content aimed at executives. There’s very little for the people doing the actual work.

This Substack is for the emerging leaders, the ICs on the edge of becoming managers, the unsung systems thinkers, and the humans who hold organizations together with skill, grit, and sometimes pure stubborn optimism and resilience.

If you want honest insight, grounded stories, and practical leadership lessons—with enough dry humor to keep the realities of tech from feeling apocalyptic—you’ll feel at home here.

What I hope you get from it

A clearer view of the systems you’re operating in.

Language for things your gut already knows.

Confidence to lead—wherever you sit today.

And maybe, occasionally, a laugh.

Welcome to the space between code and culture.

Let’s build better systems—and better leaders—together.