Engineering leadership and technical strategy
John Munn
Engineering leader and writer focused on the messy intersection of technology and people.
I help teams cut through complexity, whether it's technical debt, scaling challenges, or organizational growing pains. Twenty years of experience has taught me that good strategy starts with understanding what's actually happening, not what the slide deck says is happening.
How I Work
20+ years leading teams through scaling pressure, architectural change, and messy delivery contexts.
Writing and advisory work across engineering leadership, architecture, and AI decision-making.
Practical guidance for leaders who need clearer judgment, not heavier process.
Writing
- Leadership
How to Measure AI Productivity When the Cost Moves Instead of Disappearing
Learn how to measure AI productivity in engineering by tracking flow, quality, learning, code health, and ROI without being fooled by throughput alone.
· 8 min read - Technical
Your AI Architecture Isn’t Broken
AI architecture issues rarely come from the model. Learn where retrieval, data, agents, and fine-tuning break down in real systems.
· 6 min read - Technical
Where AI Systems Drift
A companion guide to the interactive systems drift page, focused on which controls belong at which layer, when to use them, and what problem each one actually solves.
· 9 min read
Applied work
Projects
Applied work and exploration. What I build and why.
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