You don't have to choose between infra and product

Sun, 08 Jun 2025 12:00:00 +0000

Early in my career, I started out in a product-facing team, working on user-visible features, collaborating with design, thinking about experience and usability. It was rewarding, fast-paced, and full of feedback loops.

After a while, I knew I wanted to push myself further.

I didn’t just want to design interfaces. I wanted to understand the systems beneath them. I wanted to write code that was resilient under load, optimize for throughput, and work at scale. I wanted to build the kind of technical judgment that only comes from shipping real infrastructure.

Speed is a feature and why moving fast improves quality

Sun, 01 Jun 2025 12:00:00 +0000

“Speed and quality aren’t at odds - they’re often positively correlated.” - Nan Yu, Linear

When I first started out as an engineer, I assumed that “moving fast” meant rushing, cutting corners, or skipping due diligence. Sure, sometimes it does if you’re careless. However, over time, especially working in a startup environment, I’ve learned something that surprised me:

Speed can actually improve quality.

Not in a reckless way, but in a focused, practiced, high-feedback-loop kind of way. The best engineers and teams I’ve worked with move quickly because they care about quality. They know what matters, what can wait, and how to learn through iteration. They don’t aim for perfect upfront. They aim to learn fast and improve continuously.

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You don't have to choose between infra and product

Speed is a feature and why moving fast improves quality