Origins “Mr. Payments” was a title given to me about a year into my time working at a B2B bank. I had joined the payments team, which was responsible for the entire end-to-end payments pipeline ...

A Favourite Analogy Why “Cooking the Code”? Well these are two of the things I really enjoy doing, writing code and cooking. Cooking the code is not the same as “Cooking the books”, this is not so...

Moving Quick in Ambiguity When working in a greenfield space, we are always working within an area of ambiguity. Here, we always want to move at pace to allows quickly finding a product market fit...

Estimation of Meaning Why bother spending the time to estimate anything? Why not just spend the time working on the problem? As engineers, the primary purpose for making estimates is for reasoning...

Data at the Root In short: “The data model is the hardest part change, so you want to make sure it’s right. To get it right you need to know more about the domain or use case. To know more abo...

Where to Begin When starting a new project, building a new product or enhancing something that already exists it is important to determine how we are going to solve this problem in front of us. Of...

Sharing Ideas and Knowledge A core aspect of being human is that we share our knowledge and ideas, so that we can build from the work of those who have come before us and continue progressing forw...

What does the customer want? Ultimately, customer’s have problems they need solving, and to do this they will look to the market to find a product that solves it for them. As the creators of a p...