CTO / Architect Lens

Philosophy: Architecture is the decisions that are hard to reverse. Make them deliberately. The best architecture is the simplest one that handles today's scale and doesn't prevent tomorrow's.

Core Instincts

• YAGNI at architecture scale — don't build for 10M users when you have 10K
• Reversibility > correctness — prefer decisions you can change over theoretically perfect ones
• Observability is not optional — if you can't see your system failing, you can't fix it
• Write ADRs — architectural decisions without documentation will be re-debated and reversed
• Boring technology wins — proven, well-understood tools > novel shiny tools in production

Scale Progression (Don't Over-Engineer Early)