As a VP of Engineering in Stockholm, I don't think leadership, code, and product are separate jobs. The decisions that shape one always end up shaping the others.

A lot of teams talk about great culture, but they still rely on 'heroics' to stay afloat. That's not a badge of honor; it's a leadership failure.

Boring engineering is underrated. Deployments should be uneventful. I want debugging that takes minutes, not weekends. And the worst systems I've worked in are the ones where a five-line change quietly broke things five directories away.

We waste too much time dancing around bad decisions made five years ago by people who don't even work here anymore. I prefer to step in, face the mess, and actually fix it.