Built by Nikhil — engineering leadership and hands-on systems work
I’m Nikhil Joshi. I lead engineering teams for a living, and I still build things myself at weekends — the second habit is what keeps the first one honest.
Most of what I understand about running teams, I learned by getting it wrong first. That’s most of what I write here: how teams are actually shaped, what AI is doing to that shape, and what breaks when one engineer can suddenly move faster than the system around them. I’d rather bring evidence than opinion, and I’ll say so when the evidence lands somewhere I didn’t expect.
The rest is hands-on — Go, microservices, Flutter, and whatever the NAS in the corner has decided to do this month. Those posts keep the wrong turns in, because that is usually the part worth reading.
There’s also an Arduino series I’m working through with my son, one small project at a time. He is a demanding reviewer.