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.
4 posts →Worth your timeReadingArticles, papers and books I have read, what I took from them, and where I disagree.
2 posts →Latest
AI · 19 Oct 2026 · 7 min read
Human-in-the-loop is not a security boundary
Two AI agents deleted production databases despite being told not to. Approval improves an agent's decisions; it doesn't limit what the agent can do. Why agent safety is a permissions and architecture problem first, how to size the risk of an action, and what humans are actually for.
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2026
- Tech debt snowballs, then it avalanchesLeadership5 min read
- 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