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@severin-bruhat.bsky.social
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Sr Software Engineering Manager (@Trustpilot) based in Edinburgh 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿. severin-bruhat.com sbruhat.gumroad.com

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Sev @severin-bruhat.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Weekend side project: I used deepseek v4 pro to help me rebuild www.beatcrafter.app
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Sev @severin-bruhat.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Lessons from Unveiling the 7 Principles of Lean: medium.com/@severin_bruhat/unveilin… #SoftwareDevelopment #Management
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Sev @severin-bruhat.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Great article by @skamille.themanagerswrath.com skamille.medium.com/the-managers... #engineeringManagement #AI
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The Manager’s Path in the Age of AI
This week, I gave a talk at LDX3 New York. When they asked me to speak and asked me for a topic, I said that it was probably time I finally…
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Sev @severin-bruhat.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
What criteria do you use to decide whether to rewrite a legacy service from scratch or refactor it incrementally? #LegacyCode #SoftwareEngineering
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Sev @severin-bruhat.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Why Critical Thinking: A Practical Guide matters more than you think: medium.com/@severin_bruhat/critical… #TechInsights #Leadership
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Sev @severin-bruhat.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
I wish I knew this earlier about My Top 5 Takeaways From Management Books. Sharing my lessons: medium.com/@severin_bruhat/my-top-5… #TechManagement #LeadershipTips
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Sev @severin-bruhat.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
My take on How to Handle Stress Without Losing Your Mind: medium.com/@severin_bruhat/how-to-h… #Engineering #CareerGrowth
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Sev @severin-bruhat.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
How do you measure the actual productivity impact of introducing AI coding assistants across a team when traditional metrics stop making sense? #TechLeadership #AI
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Sev @severin-bruhat.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
What is your threshold for letting a failing production deployment run while you debug live rather than rolling back immediately? #DevOps #SRE
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Sev @severin-bruhat.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
How much of your sprint planning is genuinely forward looking versus just firefighting leftover tech debt from last quarter? #Agile #SoftwareArchitecture
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Sev @severin-bruhat.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Is pairing junior developers with senior staff on every task actually accelerating onboarding or just burning senior bandwidth? #DeveloperExperience #Mentorship
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Sev @severin-bruhat.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Is measuring developer output by PR count actually driving worse code quality in your teams? #DevMetrics #SoftwareEngineering
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Sev @severin-bruhat.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
How do you measure the actual productivity impact of reducing daily standups from 30 minutes to 15? What metrics do you look at to tell if communication is improving or just moving elsewhere? #Agile #EngineeringManagement
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Sev @severin-bruhat.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Are you seeing senior engineers struggle more with architectural decisions now that AI tools generate boilerplate code so quickly? How does this shift your technical mentoring? #SoftwareArchitecture #AI
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Sev @severin-bruhat.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
When senior engineers disagree fundamentally on system design, how do you break the tie without undermining either of them? #SoftwareEngineering #TechLeadership
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Sev @severin-bruhat.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Are take-home coding tests actually filtering for the right skills, or are we just losing good candidates to time poverty? #Hiring #EngineeringManagement
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Sev @severin-bruhat.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
How do you balance protecting your engineers' deep work time with the endless stream of cross-functional alignment meetings? #Productivity #TechLeadership
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Sev @severin-bruhat.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Why Stop Asking Engineers to Design Instagram matters more than you think: medium.com/@severin_bruhat/stop-ask… #TechInsights #Leadership
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Sev @severin-bruhat.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
My New Project: Tips for Managers & Leaders! - practical advice from my journey as an engineering manager. Give it a read: medium.com/@severin_bruhat/my-new-p… #SoftwareManagement #CareerGrowth
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Sev @severin-bruhat.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Struggling with 1-1 Conversation Starters for Software Engineering Managers? I've been there. Here's what I learned: medium.com/@severin_bruhat/1-1-conv… #Leadership #Management
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Sev @severin-bruhat.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Navigating the Realities of Engineering Promotions authenticmanager.substack.com/p/navigating... #career #softwareEngineering
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Navigating the Realities of Engineering Promotions
Why Climbing the Tech Ladder Feels Complex
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Sev @severin-bruhat.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Most People Become Managers for the Wrong Reasons - practical advice from my journey as an engineering manager. Give it a read: medium.com/@severin_bruhat/most-peo… #SoftwareManagement #CareerGrowth
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Sev @severin-bruhat.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Everything you need to know about How To Master Your Next Negotiation: medium.com/@severin_bruhat/how-to-m… #TechLeadership #Engineering
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Sev @severin-bruhat.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Everything you need to know about Level Up Your Engineering Leadership: medium.com/@severin_bruhat/level-up… #TechLeadership #Engineering
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Sev @severin-bruhat.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Lessons from SMART Goals - 3 Easy and Effective Examples: medium.com/@severin_bruhat/smart-go… #SoftwareDevelopment #Management
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Sev @severin-bruhat.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
The secret to a high-performing team? 20 Motivational Tips for Your Team: medium.com/@severin_bruhat/20-motiv… #TechLeadership #Teamwork
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Sev @severin-bruhat.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
The High Price of Being a Workaholic and Why You Need To Slow Down - here's what I learned: medium.com/@severin_bruhat/the-high… #Tech #SoftwareEngineering
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Sev @severin-bruhat.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Do you involve your whole team in architecture decisions or do you let designated tech leads drive them to avoid design by committee? #SoftwareArchitecture #DevTeams
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Sev @severin-bruhat.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
How much of your engineering roadmap do you actually protect for technical health when leadership is pushing purely for customer-facing feature delivery? #TechLeadership #ProductManagement
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Sev @severin-bruhat.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
When you inherit a codebase where every single feature was built as a proof of concept, do you refactor first or just keep stacking features on top? #EngineeringManagement #TechDebt
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Sev @severin-bruhat.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Where do you draw the line between protecting your team's focus time and ensuring they remain accessible to product managers and stakeholders during planning cycles? #TechLeadership #ProductManagement
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Sev @severin-bruhat.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
How do you measure the actual productivity impact of introducing AI coding assistants across a mid-sized engineering team? #DevTeams #AI
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Sev @severin-bruhat.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
When you inherit a codebase where every single feature was built as a microservice, what is your strategy for deciding whether to consolidate or keep splitting? #SoftwareEngineering #EngineeringManagement
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Sev @severin-bruhat.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
My 5 takeaways from the "2025 DORA State of AI-assisted Software Development report" released by Google.: authenticmanager.substack.com/p/ai-doesnt-... #ai #softwareEngineering #engineeringMetrics
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AI doesn't fix your engineering org. It amplifies whatever's already there.
My 5 takeaways from the "2025 DORA State of AI-assisted Software Development report" released by Google.
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Sev @severin-bruhat.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
How do you handle team members who consistently push back on architectural decisions by citing theoretical scale they'll never actually reach? #SoftwareArchitecture #TechLeadership
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Sev @severin-bruhat.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
10 Tips to Elevate Your Software Engineering Management Skills - practical advice from my journey as an engineering manager. Give it a read: medium.com/@severin_bruhat/10-tips-… #SoftwareManagement #Care...
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Sev @severin-bruhat.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Five Actions for New Manager Success - practical advice from my journey as an engineering manager. Give it a read: medium.com/@severin_bruhat/five-act… #SoftwareManagement #CareerGrowth
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Sev @severin-bruhat.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Want to level up your management skills? Check out my take on Engineering Managers are doomed!: medium.com/@severin_bruhat/engineer… #EngineeringManager #TechLeadership
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Sev @severin-bruhat.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
10 Tips to Elevate Your Software Engineering Management Skills - practical advice from my journey as an engineering manager. Give it a read: medium.com/@severin_bruhat/10-tips-… #SoftwareManagement #Care...
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Sev @severin-bruhat.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Everything you need to know about Software Visualisation - Diagram as Code: The C4 Model: medium.com/@severin_bruhat/software… #TechLeadership #Engineering
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Sev @severin-bruhat.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Discovering Google Dorks - here's what I learned: medium.com/@severin_bruhat/discover… #Tech #SoftwareEngineering
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Sev @severin-bruhat.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Here's how I tackle Stop wasting your time: 5 Powerful Tips to Conquer Procrastination: medium.com/@severin_bruhat/stop-was… #TimeManagement #Productivity
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Sev @severin-bruhat.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Time management for EMs is about ruthless prioritisation, not working longer hours. Here is a direct guide covering Pomodoro, the Eisenhower Matrix, GTD, and learning to say no. sbruhat.gumroad.com/l/how-to-master… #Productivity #TechLeadership
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Sev @severin-bruhat.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
How do you balance giving developers full autonomy over their tech stack with the maintenance burden of a fragmented codebase? #SoftwareEngineering #EngineeringManagement
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Sev @severin-bruhat.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
When legacy systems demand constant firefighting, how do you protect team capacity for long-term technical debt without stalling product delivery? #EngineeringManagement #TechLeadership
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Sev @severin-bruhat.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
How much context do you share with your team about upcoming company financial struggles without causing panic or losing top performers? #EngineeringManagement #TeamLeadership
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Sev @severin-bruhat.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
When senior engineers spend all their time on architecture diagrams and none on actual delivery, where do you draw the line between guidance and bottleneck? #TechLeadership #SoftwareArchitecture
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Sev @severin-bruhat.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Onboarding a wave of junior developers is exciting, but how do we effectively balance their crucial learning curve with maintaining established sprint velocity targets? It's a key challenge. #EngineeringTeams #TalentDevelopment #Agile
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Sev @severin-bruhat.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
When executive pressure demands faster delivery dates, how do you protect team capacity without sounding like you are just pushing back? #TechLeadership #SoftwareEngineering
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Sev @severin-bruhat.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
When a senior engineer refuses to use the new tooling the rest of the team agreed on, do you enforce compliance or let autonomy win? #TechLeadership #DeveloperExperience
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