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Tagged: engineering-leadership

7 articles tagged "engineering-leadership", published between 2025 and 2026. They span AI Engineering, Outcomes & Impact and Team Building.

Team Building

Designing an On-Call Rotation That Works

Most on-call rotations burn out the engineers who are best at incident response, because the rotation punishes competence. Here is how to design one that doesn't.

6 min read
Outcomes & Impact

How Nykaa Scaled to IPO: Platform Migration

The engineering decisions behind Nykaa from startup to IPO — Magento to custom Python, in-memory cart service, Kong API gateway, 500% traffic growth, 99.99% uptime.

10 min read
Outcomes & Impact

Measuring Engineering Impact That Matters

Dipankar Sarkar presents a framework for measuring engineering impact that connects technical work to business outcomes, beyond vanity metrics like story points.

9 min read
Team Building

Remote-First Engineering Teams That Deliver

Dipankar Sarkar explains how to build remote-first engineering teams that outperform co-located ones: communication architecture, async workflows, and trust.

9 min read
Team Building

Hiring Engineers Who Ship: A Practical Guide

Dipankar Sarkar shares the hiring framework used to build teams at Nykaa, Hike, and Orangewood Labs: identifying engineers who ship, not just interview well.

8 min read
AI Engineering

Scaling AI-Assisted Development

Dipankar Sarkar explains how to scale AI-assisted development from small teams to enterprise. The Pivot Point framework for knowing when informal practices break.

8 min read
AI Engineering

Production-Ready AI-Assisted Development

Dipankar Sarkar explains how to use AI code generation in production systems: the Vibes Inside Guardrails framework for AI productivity with reliability.

7 min read