Anshul Bisen

Engineering leader, builder, and tinkerer.

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The portfolio is the proof. Ship your work or it did not happen.

Not resumes. Not endorsements. Not interview performance. The code you ship, the systems you build, the writing you publish. Ship it or it did not happen.

April 12, 2026

#career#engineering-leadership#architecture#experience
What I got wrong in my first year as Head of Engineering and what I would do differently

Over-hiring before culture. Saying yes to everything. Underinvesting in developer experience. Staying hands-on too long. The common thread was not trusting the team.

April 5, 2026

#engineering-leadership#career#decision-making#team-building#experience
The Cloudflare container platform changes what I would self-host

Edge containers win for stateless batch jobs and lightweight APIs. Self-hosting still wins for stateful services and observability. The line is shifting faster than expected.

March 29, 2026

#cloudflare#self-hosting#homelab#architecture#learning
Why every fintech startup eventually builds its own ledger

FinanceOps started with a third-party ledger. Within 18 months we built our own. Ledger semantics are too coupled to business rules for abstraction.

March 22, 2026

#fintech#financeops#architecture#postgres#blog
The real job of a Head of Engineering

Make throughput predictable and quality sustainable. Not hero-shipping. Not writing the most code. Build a system that delivers without depending on any single person.

March 15, 2026

#engineering-leadership#career#decision-making#cross-functional#blog

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