Contributors

The voices behind Pinnacle Media.

156 contributing authors. Every single one an active practitioner — no career writers, no recycled takes.

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34 articles

Sarah Chen

VP of Engineering

Former Principal Engineer at two Series C startups. Passionate about distributed systems and helping teams ship faster.

InfrastructureScalingArchitecture
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28 articles

Marcus Rivera

Staff Engineer

Staff engineer with 12 years building developer tools. Currently focused on platform engineering and production reliability.

DevOpsCI/CDObservability
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19 articles

Aisha Patel

Principal Designer

Principal designer who built the design system used by 40+ product teams. Writes about the intersection of design and engineering.

Design SystemsAccessibilityFrontend
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22 articles

James Okafor

Engineering Manager

Engineering manager who has grown three teams from 5 to 40+ engineers. Writes about org design and the human side of software.

Team BuildingProcessesCulture
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15 articles

Emily Zhang

SRE Lead

Site reliability engineer who has designed on-call systems for 200-person engineering orgs. Passionate about sustainable operations.

ReliabilityOn-callSLOs
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21 articles

David Kim

Frontend Architect

Frontend architect focused on Core Web Vitals and large-scale React applications. Previously at two top-20 global web properties.

PerformanceReactWeb Vitals

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