Michael Lopp (Rands)
Eng Leader, ex-Slack/Apple/Pinterest
Rands in Repose. Long-running blog and home of the Rands Leadership Slack. Author of Managing Humans and The Art of Leadership.
Cate Huston
Director of Engineering, DuckDuckGo
Accidentally in Code. Thoughtful pieces on engineering management, remote teams, and leading through ambiguity.
Jacob Kaplan-Moss
ex-Director of Engineering, 18F; Django co-creator
A long body of writing on engineering management, hiring, leveling, and compensation that's widely cited in the field.
Phil Calçado
ex-Director of Engineering, SoundCloud/DigitalOcean
Deep writing on microservices, platform engineering, and scaling engineering organizations.
Gergely Orosz
Author, The Pragmatic Engineer; ex-EM Uber
The most-read engineering newsletter, with deep dives on Big Tech practices, leveling, and management.
Tom MacWright
Engineering Leader, ex-Observable/Mapbox
Essays on software, maps, and the day-to-day of leading product engineering teams.
Simon Willison
Director & Django co-creator
Prolific TILs and project write-ups; a model of how a senior technical leader works in the open.
Stay SaaSy
Senior Eng & Product Leaders
Pseudonymous, hard-won lessons on leading engineering and product organizations at SaaS companies.
Jessica Kerr
Engineering Leader & Sociotechnical Thinker
Jessitron. Systems thinking about software, teams, and the sociotechnical nature of engineering organizations.
Will Gallego
Engineering Leader, ex-Etsy/Datadog
Writing on blameless culture, resilience engineering, and growing healthy engineering teams.
Lou Franco
Engineering Leader & Author
Writing on managing engineering teams, technical debt, and the craft of software leadership.
Addy Osmani
Engineering Leader, Chrome @ Google
Engineering leadership and web performance from a longtime Google Chrome leader and prolific author.
Scott Hanselman
VP of Developer Community, Microsoft
A long-running blog on developer productivity, leadership, and being effective — including the famous 'keystroke' essays.
Sophie Alpert
ex-Engineering Manager, React @ Meta
Writing on frontend engineering, management, and leading high-impact infrastructure teams.
Caitie McCaffrey
Distributed Systems Engineering Leader
Talks and essays on distributed systems, stateful services, and building and leading platform teams.
Paul Irish
Engineering Lead, Chrome @ Google
Web performance and developer-tooling writing from a longtime leader on the Google Chrome team.
Matt Cutts
ex-Administrator, US Digital Service
Engineering leadership and public-service tech from a former Google engineer who led the US Digital Service.
Aja Hammerly
Engineering Leader, Google Cloud
Thagomizer. Writing on developer relations, cloud engineering, and leading technical teams.
Cassidy Williams
ex-CTO Contenda; DevRel Leader
Engineering, developer experience, and career writing from a longtime DevRel and engineering leader.
Shawn Wang (swyx)
Engineering Leader & Writer, ex-Temporal
Writing on the 'Learn in Public' ethos, developer experience, and the business of engineering careers.