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Case studies

Write-ups of engineering leadership work, each covering the problem, the approach and what changed.

Building azlan.engineer with AI-assisted engineering

Designed and developed a personal website using Astro, Cloudflare Pages and AI-assisted development workflows, applying the same evaluation and adoption principles used when introducing AI tools within engineering teams.

Delivered a modern, accessible and maintainable website while exploring practical approaches to AI-assisted software delivery and developer productivity.

  • AI-assisted engineering
  • Astro
  • Cloudflare
  • Developer productivity

Read the case study: Building azlan.engineer with AI-assisted engineering

Evaluating GitHub Copilot for engineering teams

How GitHub Copilot was evaluated at JustGiving on real work, weighing delivery benefits against code quality, security, review practices and developer experience.

  • AI-assisted engineering
  • Technology evaluation
  • Engineering leadership
  • Developer productivity

Read the case study: Evaluating GitHub Copilot for engineering teams

Building high-performing teams

Creating the goals, working agreements and delivery habits that help teams perform consistently and enjoy working together.

  • Leadership
  • Delivery
  • Team culture

Write-up coming soon

Growing engineers into senior engineers

How clear expectations, stretch work, regular feedback and sponsorship help strong engineers become confident senior ones.

  • Coaching
  • Career development

Write-up coming soon

Leading architecture decisions

Facilitating architecture decisions for distributed systems on AWS, with explicit trade-offs, wide input and a clear record of the outcome.

  • Architecture
  • AWS
  • Technical strategy

Write-up coming soon