I'm Ris.
Ship code. Stay human.
Software engineer, Scrum Master, and pragmatic problem-solver. I write about development, DevOps, career growth, and finding balance in tech — plus recipes that actually work when you need fuel for a late-night build.
Six currents to follow
Craft, leadership, agile practice, and the quieter work of staying whole while you're doing all three.
Development
Modern practices, automation, and tools that make coding more efficient and teams more productive.
- Automation & scripting
- Git internals
- Modern web frameworks
- DevOps & CI/CD
- Database design
Career growth
Navigate tech with insights on leadership, advancement, and building meaningful professional relationships.
- Technical leadership
- Career transitions
- Mentoring approaches
- Building expertise
Scrum & agile
Strategies for Scrum mastery, agile transformation, and creating high-performing development teams.
- Ceremonies & facilitation
- Agile transformation
- Team dynamics
- Continuous improvement
Health & balance
Mental health, work-life balance, and sustainable habits while thriving in a tech career.
- Mental health awareness
- Work-life balance
- Stress management
- Sustainable habits
Remote work
Making distributed teams actually work — home office setups, async communication, and staying connected.
- Home office setup
- Async communication
- Remote leadership
- Work-life boundaries
Personal
Honest reflections on life, identity, growth, and the messy stuff that shapes who we become.
- Life lessons
- Neurodivergent perspectives
- Identity & growth
- Honest reflections
You knew the answer and you didn't say it
I was in an architecture review a few years back. Fifteen people on the call, half of them senior engineers. Someone proposed a caching strategy that I knew would fall apart under concurrent writes. I'd hit that exact failure mode six months earlier on a different project. I had the scars and the postmortem to prove it.
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Fresh ink.
The last few pieces — clicking through opens the reader.