Level Up Software Engineering 🚀

8 daily ways I use AI as an Engineering Manager to Level Up my work

No BS practical everyday ways I use Ai for coding, planning, incidents, docs, complex queries, writing unit tests, debugging, and more

Jul 17 • 

Caleb Mellas

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June 2025

From Tech Debt to Top Priority: The Engineer's Guide to Getting Buy-In

How to get leadership buy-in for tech debt and other large projects across multiple teams, tight timelines, security concerns and more.

Jun 18 • 

Caleb Mellas

22

February 2025

9 underrated engineering skills in this ai era

Beyond coding: Underrated skills that'll help you stand out as an engineer while AI is used for more of our day-to-day code writing. Not many of us are…

Feb 26 • 

Caleb Mellas

38

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Staff Projects: Pt 3. Breaking into Staff Engineering

How to bridge the gap between the fuzzy expectations on the engineering ladder and the day-to-day actions top performers use to drive their careers…

Feb 12 • 

Caleb Mellas

 and 

Thiago Ghisi

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January 2025

What’s next after Senior Engineer?

Hint: Your career is just getting started...

Jan 15 • 

Caleb Mellas

 and 

Gregor Ojstersek

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November 2024

Staff Engineer Behaviors: pt. 2 Breaking the ceiling into Staff Engineering

Key behaviors that help engineers make transformational leaps in their career and scale their impact and influence in a sustainable and meaningful way.

Nov 20, 2024 • 

Caleb Mellas

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Thiago Ghisi

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October 2024

Adaptability is a super power

Sticking with how you’ve always done things won’t always work.

Oct 30, 2024 • 

Caleb Mellas

13

September 2024

Breaking the Staff Engineer Ceiling pt. 1

Going from Senior to a Staff-Plus marks a pivotal evolution in an engineer's career, requiring a fundamental shift in how we influence, lead, and drive…

Sep 11, 2024 • 

Caleb Mellas

 and 

Thiago Ghisi

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August 2024

How I went from Tech Lead → Engineering Management

Part two of our series about everything I’ve learned going from a Senior Software Engineer to Tech Lead to Engineering Management.

Aug 14, 2024 • 

Caleb Mellas

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July 2024

How I went from Senior Engineer → Tech Lead

A two-part series about everything I’ve learned going from a Senior Software Engineer to Tech Lead to Engineering Manager.

Jul 31, 2024 • 

Caleb Mellas

47

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15 ways to Supercharge your Career Growth

After 10+ yrs of working in software engineering, here are top traits I’ve seen in the top performing engineers I’ve worked with. Work on these to…

Jul 17, 2024 • 

Caleb Mellas

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How to fix slow loading apps

How often have you worked on a slow javascript web app that randomly just seemed to slow to a crawl when loading for users?

Jul 5, 2024 • 

Caleb Mellas

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