Munir Hassan · Lead Engineer · Australia
Designing systems that last, and teams that can own them.
Engineering field notes, lessons from leading engineers, and what I'm reading. Written from over a decade of modernising enterprise platforms in complex, regulated environments.
- Platform architecture
- AI-assisted engineering
- Headless & cloud
- Engineering leadership
What I write about
Production problems and how they were fixed, architecture decisions, and experiments with AI in the engineering workflow.
17 posts →Lead engineer notesLeadershipDecisions, trade-offs and team questions that come with leading engineers: testing strategy, delivery flow, technical direction, and bringing AI into how a team works.
3 posts →Worth your timeReadingArticles, papers and books I have read, what I took from them, and where I disagree.
2 posts →Latest
Leadership · 6 Oct 2026 · 5 min read
Tech debt snowballs, then it avalanches
Technical debt rarely fails slowly. It grows quietly for months, then one day nothing can move until it's fixed. How to spot the snowball, why you don't get to choose the avalanche day, and what a lead can do before it arrives.
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2026
- Deep Work, read as a lead engineerLeadership3 min read
- Don't build business logic on an expiry notificationArchitecture4 min read
- Last write wins, and the customer losesArchitecture3 min read
- Release risk usually isn't in the codeDelivery3 min read
- Being right is not the jobLeadership2 min read
- Moving my blog off WordPress with an AI agent: what I delegated, and what I didn'tAI4 min read
2023
2021
- PowerShell scripts to get Sitecore User informationSitecore1 min read
- Email dispatch issue in Sitecore EXMEXM2 min read
- Dialogflow Custom Payload for Facebook MessengerDialogflow1 min read
- On Sitecore item publish, update a single record in the indexSitecore1 min read
- Send alert when Sitecore running jobs get stuckSitecore2 min read
- Programmatically resume paused emails in Sitecore EXMSitecore1 min read
- A common Sitecore 9 Experience Profile errorSitecore1 min read
- Remove Sitecore users in bulkSitecore1 min read
- Filter users by domain in Sitecore User ManagerSitecore1 min read
- Dependency Inversion Principle and the Dependency Injection PatternCommon4 min read
- Unsubscribe email in Sitecore EXMSitecore2 min read