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Unemployed software engineer | Previously Condé Nast, NBC News, et al. | 23 yrs in tech. Sharing hard-won lessons, faceplants & survival tactics from scaling web systems, taming cloud infrastructure, navigating AI hype & corporate 💩 storms.

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Edward Distel

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Unemployed software engineer, formerly Condé Nast, NBC News et al | 23 yrs in tech. Sharing hard-won lessons, faceplants & survival tactics from scaling web systems, taming cloud infrastructure, navigating AI hype & corporate 💩 storms.

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