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Roman Nikolaev
Personal blog · highimpactengineering.substack.comcareerprogramming
Roman Nikolaev writes High-Impact Engineering, a personal blog at highimpactengineering.substack.com about career and programming. Since 2025, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 6 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-11-02, and you can follow it by feed.
How product & engineering orgs work, and break, in their first ~30 people.
What Hacker News says?
Submitted Internal RFCs saved us months of wasted work as a story · 102 points
HN discussionSubmitted Gap between how your team sees you AND how you see yourself as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Quitting sprints cleared our technical debt and sped up delivery as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Building Influence Within the Team as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted We dropped sprint commitments for weekly priorities and continuous delivery as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted We eliminated manual regression testing after three years of test automation as a story · 1 points
HN discussion