You're a team lead. Now what?
You don't scale. Your team does. Three things they need from you: the who, the what, and the why. Get these right and the team delivers. Get any wrong and no process will save you.
Guillermo Álvarez personal blog
On building high-performance teams, hiring engineers, software, and what software leadership actually looks like. By an engineering leader with 20 years in the trenches.
Latest posts
What kind of team do you have?
There are two kinds of engineering teams: task teams optimized for efficiency, and autonomous teams optimized for flexibility. Most companies think they're running the second. Most are running the first. Here's how to tell — and why the misalignment costs you your best people.
The efficiency vs. flexibility framework for engineering organizations
Most engineering orgs are a maze with invisible walls. A practical framework for deciding where to be flexible and where to be efficient — and making it explicit.
It is time to redefine what a senior engineer is
If your job is taking a well-defined spec and turning it into code, that workflow has a name now: a prompt. Here's what a senior engineer actually is in 2026.