Thriving in Engineering

Alex Ponomarev

Software engineering isn't just strategy and sprint plans. It's ambiguity, pressure, trade-offs, and people. Thriving In Engineering helps you navigate all of it. In the newsletter, Alex Ponomarev distills 25 years of engineering leadership into practical frameworks to help you lead with confidence, stay calm under pressure, and build thriving teams. The podcast goes deeper, talking to engineers, leaders, and builders across the industry about what AI transformation actually looks like in practice, past the headlines and hype. One guest at a time.

Episodes

  1. Jun 30

    Mastering AI Integration in Engineering Teams: Strategies from Shamim Rajani

    Shamim Rajani is COO and co-founder of Genetech, a software development company with 100+ people and offices in Karachi and Detroit serving clients across North America and Europe. She's also co-founder of Code Girls, a bootcamp that has trained over 2,000 women in Pakistan's tech industry, former chairperson of PASHA — Pakistan's national IT industry association — and writes The Leadership Lens, a Substack on the harder, less-talked-about side of leading teams. In this conversation, we discuss: Why Genetech built an internal AI research lab a year before they expected results from it — and what that patience bought themThe mid-level developer problem: why this layer is the most endangered, and what juniors and seniors each bring that AI can't replaceThe productivity paradox — how AI can turn a 100-hour task into a 130-hour one, and when seniors decide it's faster to scrap the output and do it themselvesHow small and medium business clients are using "aren't you using AI?" as a bargaining chip — without really understanding what they're askingShamim's real experiment: reviewing the same code manually and with AI, what each caught, and what she learned about where to trust itWhy she's comparing AI to the blockchain bubble — and why she changed her mind Genetech Solutions - https://www.genetechsolutions.com/  The Leadership Lens newsletter - https://shamimrajani.substack.com/  LinkedIn - https://linkedin.com/in/shamimrajani Twitter - https://twitter.com/shamimrajani

    Mastering AI Integration in Engineering Teams: Strategies from Shamim Rajani
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Software engineering isn't just strategy and sprint plans. It's ambiguity, pressure, trade-offs, and people. Thriving In Engineering helps you navigate all of it. In the newsletter, Alex Ponomarev distills 25 years of engineering leadership into practical frameworks to help you lead with confidence, stay calm under pressure, and build thriving teams. The podcast goes deeper, talking to engineers, leaders, and builders across the industry about what AI transformation actually looks like in practice, past the headlines and hype. One guest at a time.

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  • Creator
    Alex Ponomarev
  • Years Active
    2026
  • Episodes
    1
  • Rating
    Clean
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