Arun Chaitanya Miriappalli

Arun Chaitanya Miriappalli

Engineering leader building fintech and SaaS platforms. Writing about engineering leadership, AI-enabled systems, and lessons from scaling teams and platforms.

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Two Incident Cultures, Same Decline Spike
Engineering CultureIncident ResponseAI

Two payments teams can run the exact same incident when a graph dips - one closes it with a doc, the other closes it with a fix - and AI just made the expensive option nearly free, which clarifies what the ritual was actually for.

Two Ways Teams Decide What's Next
Engineering CulturePlanningAI

Two teams can plan the exact same way and land on opposite instincts — and AI is making the quarterly ritual nearly free just as shipping cycles get too fast for a quarter to hold.

Code Review, Two Speeds
Engineering CultureCode ReviewAI

Two teams can run the exact same code review process and mean completely different things by it — and AI-generated code is quietly collapsing that spectrum around one question, "does anyone actually understand it."

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