Stack of Life: Hardware to Cloud
I think of my career as a stack. Not a technology stack in the narrow sense, but a stack of mental models. Each phase added another layer: electronics, networking, operating systems, Kubernetes, platform engineering, Go, and now cloud-scale architecture. The useful part is not just the list of technologies. It is how each layer changed the way I debug, design, and reason about systems. Layer 1: Electronics Engineering Electronics gave me my first real engineering discipline: respect the signal, respect the boundary, and do not guess before measuring. ...