Archive - The Optimist Engineer

Shifting left your effort when working with AI

When you start working with AI, more code is generated, and many more pull requests need to be reviewed. That's your bottleneck today, right? Let me…

Jun 17 • Marcos F. Lobo 🗻🧭

The importance of adapting the message to the listener

Have you ever struggled in a meeting because the conversation deviated from the original purpose? Maybe your message was not meant for your target…

Jun 11 • Marcos F. Lobo 🗻🧭

Scale Up your Start Up

Compilation of lessons for scaling up your Start Up

Jun 3 • Marcos F. Lobo 🗻🧭

May 2026

First Graduates: How Tech Companies Promote Software Engineers

This is what I told to first graduates in the University of Oviedo

May 20 • Marcos F. Lobo 🗻🧭

Your CI Pipeline Doesn’t Speak Spanish. Let’s Fix That

Internationalization as a platform capability — and what it looks like when it’s baked into your pipeline

May 13 • Marcos F. Lobo 🗻🧭 and Julia | Taking you global

Symptoms of Bad Software Design

4 signals that your software is badly designed and how to solve them

May 6 • Marcos F. Lobo 🗻🧭

April 2026

Why your releases feel harder than they should

And why is the problem almost never at the time of deployment?

Apr 29 • Marcos F. Lobo 🗻🧭

Why "Why Not?" is a Critical Engineering Skill

A personal story about losing stability, taking a risk, and learning to operate without a clear roadmap

Apr 22 • Marcos F. Lobo 🗻🧭

For those who want to go deeper

A more practical and in-depth version of The Optimist Engineer

Apr 15 • Marcos F. Lobo 🗻🧭

Lately, I’ve been thinking about this

Some honest thoughts about the future of The Optimist Engineer

Apr 8 • Marcos F. Lobo 🗻🧭

The Tech Lead’s Toolbox: Managing Debt and Architecture

Practical tasks to transition from solving bugs to solving system-wide problems.

Apr 1 • Marcos F. Lobo 🗻🧭

March 2026

Stop Coding Tasks, Start Designing Systems

How to shift your mindset from "how it works" to "why it matters" to grow your career

Mar 25 • Marcos F. Lobo 🗻🧭

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