The Week I Stopped Coding: Orchestrating an Army of AI Agents Last week, a profound shift occurred in my work: I stopped coding. Let me be clear—I didn’t stop building software, but the very act of coding itself ceased to be my primary engagement. Th...
Technical leadership, architecture decisions, and scaling engineering teams — from the trenches
I'm a fractional CTO and principal architect based in Austin. 15+ years building and leading engineering organizations — from edge AI on Raspberry Pi to supply chain systems processing millions of transactions at Wayfair, Hertz, Costco, and Chick-fil-A. I write about the decisions that actually matter when you're scaling: when to split the monolith, how to hire your first 10 engineers, what technical due diligence really looks like, and why most startups don't need a full-time CTO. Everything here is cross-posted from https://mdostal.com/blog where the original lives. If something's useful, that's where you'll find the rest. Currently running Firefly Events (eventtech) and leading engineering at Frontiers Market (edge AI + computer vision). Open to fractional CTO engagements — https://cal.com/mdostal/meet.
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