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Overview
The True Engineer is an engineering leadership and software development publication platform hosted on Substack. Authored by Adlet Balzhanov, a senior software engineering lead with background in Big Tech and high-growth enterprise scale-ups, the publication delivers monthly long-form analytical essays, career frameworks, and strategic insights for software developers, engineering managers, and technology executives. Operating under a creator-driven digital subscription model, the newsletter focuses on technical leadership tactics, staff-level engineering practices, organizational dynamics within large tech companies, and navigating the operational impacts of AI on software development.
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If LLMs can't write, I doubt it can lead us to AGI
I've been testing every new AI model the same way for a while now. I give it a real coding task, and more often than not it comes back with something solid, impressive results. Then I give it a pile of good writing samples and ask it to write an article o
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I've been living inside DynamoDB for a while
I've been living inside DynamoDB for a while now, building and scaling a distributed system on AWS that has to survive couriers, customers, and agents all hammering it at once (at a scale of 10+ million orders per day). Along the way, I collected a pile o
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10 system design rules I always come back to
I've been compiling these system design interview rules for years. Friends found them useful. Figured it was time to share them properly.Rule 1 - System design is all tradeoffs. There's no perfect choice, just better or worse ones.Rule 2 - Good design sta
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The Moving Floor
Most engineers think careers are ladders.You start at the bottom, improve your skills, work harder than everyone else, and slowly climb upward through merit. The assumption underneath most career advice is: become exceptional enough, and the system will e
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Technologies
Tech DNA
Python
JavaScript
SQL
PyTorch
Next.js
React.js
AWS
Cloudflare
CoreWeave
LLM
ChatGPT
Claude
AI/ML
Python
SQL
C++
AWS
AI Agents
Kubernetes
Terraform
Multimodal AI
Prompt Engineering
Recommender Systems
Model Context Protocol
Cloudflare
CI/CD
Fine-tuning
Reinforcement Learning
Computer Vision
Embeddings
PyTorch
Synthetic Data
ComfyUI
LLM
ChatGPT
Claude
Cursor
Post-training
SFT
Human-in-the-Loop
LLM Guardrails
EU AI Act
ArgoCD
Grafana
Prometheus
GitHub Actions
GitLab CI
Vercel
GitHub
GitLab
CUDA
CUDA Toolkit
TensorRT
Triton
vLLM
Accelerate
DeepSpeed
Diffusion Models
NLP
Ray
CoreWeave
InfiniBand
NCCL
Hugging Face
FSDP
Megatron-LM
NVLink
Mixture of Experts
VLM
AIOps
Amazon EKS
AWS Lambda
FinOps
GitOps
Helm
Istio
Karpenter
KEDA
VictoriaMetrics
Security
PowerShell
Bash
Go
C
SOC 2
GDPR
Microsoft Entra ID
Zero Trust
MPI
Frontend
JavaScript
TypeScript
Next.js
React.js
Figma
Adobe After Effects
Blender
Cinema 4D
Bootstrap
Adobe Photoshop
Procreate
Other
A/B Testing
ETL/ELT
HubSpot
Slack
n8n
Zapier
Apache Kafka
Google Ads
Marketo
Salesforce
Stack modernity
80/100
How modern this stack is, based on technology relevance, AI adoption and the share of legacy tools.
In-demand technologies
Python
5 jobs
Required
$250k
+39% vs market
AWS
4 jobs
Required
$250k
+35% vs market
Terraform
3 jobs
Required
$250k
+36% vs market
Kubernetes
3 jobs
Required
$250k
+39% vs market
SOC 2
3 jobs
Optional
$250k
+24% vs market
AI Agents
3 jobs
Required
JavaScript
2 jobs
Required
$250k
+54% vs market
Multimodal AI
2 jobs
Required
$230k
-18% vs market
Salary medians are calculated from this company's open jobs and compared with the market.
Industry adoption
Python
20%
JavaScript
16%
CI/CD
16%
AWS
16%
AI Agents
15%
TypeScript
14%
Share of companies in the same industry that use each technology.
Stack changes
Zero Trust
Sep 2026
Microsoft Entra ID
Sep 2026
VLM
Aug 2026
EU AI Act
Aug 2026
ETL/ELT
Aug 2026
Zapier
Aug 2026
n8n
Aug 2026
GitLab
Aug 2026
Technologies recently added to or removed from this company's stack - a signal of tech migrations and new initiatives.
Jobgether
NVIDIA
Adobe
Weekday
Accenture
Salesforce
Salary insights
Compensation ranges based on this company's open jobs
Median
$240k
Typical range
$150k – $275k
Open positions
6
3
Jobs
Middle
33.3%
Senior
33.3%
Architect
33.3%
| Level | Jobs | Median | Typical range |
|---|---|---|---|
| Middle | 1 | $150k | $150k |
| Senior | 1 | $250k | $250k |
| Architect | 1 | $275k | $275k |
Highest paying role
Director of Partnerships, AI Model and Ecosystem
$275k
Normalized to USD per year
Growth
Hiring Momentum
59/100
Growing
Open positions
21
1 opened / 0 closed in 30 days
Median time-to-fill
26 days
faster than 47% of the market
ATS activity
Every ~3 hours
Today
Hiring Dynamics
+100%
Hiring Focus
The percentage next to each role is its share of the company's job openings over the last 90 days; the arrow shows the shift versus the previous period.
AI/ML
32% ▲
Product
21% ▲
Security
16% ▼
DevOps
11% ▼
Executive
5% ▼
Analytics
5% ▲
Actively hiring for AI/ML (+3 in 30 days)
Activity Timeline
Added VLM to stack
Aug 2026
Added EU AI Act to stack
Aug 2026
Added ETL/ELT to stack
Aug 2026
Added Zapier to stack
Aug 2026
Added n8n to stack
Aug 2026
Added GitLab to stack
Aug 2026
Added GitHub to stack
Aug 2026
Added LLM Guardrails to stack
Aug 2026
Added Model Context Protocol to stack
Aug 2026
Added A/B Testing to stack
Aug 2026
Added Mixture of Experts to stack
Aug 2026
Added NVLink to stack
Aug 2026
Jobs
≈ $24k – $49k per year (Estimated) • Equity • In office • Full-Time • 5+ years exp • Almaty
EU AI Act
Cybersecurity
GDPR
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$140k – $180k per year • Equity • Remote/Hybrid • Full-Time • San Francisco
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$165k – $230k per year • Equity • Remote/Hybrid • Full-Time • San Francisco
Fine-tuning
Multimodal AI
Prompt Engineering
Reinforcement Learning
Post-training
Recommender Systems
SFT
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≈ $23k – $48k per year (Estimated) • In office • Full-Time • 6+ years exp • Almaty
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In office • Full-Time • Almaty
AI Agents
Model Context Protocol
Analytics
A/B Testing
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≈ $22k – $55k per year (Estimated) • Equity • In office • Full-Time • 5+ years exp • Almaty
Python
Computer Vision
Embeddings
Multimodal AI
PyTorch
Synthetic Data
Human-in-the-Loop
Recommender Systems
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≈ $18k – $44k per year (Estimated) • Equity • In office • Full-Time • 7+ years exp • Almaty
AWS
Kubernetes
Terraform
Cybersecurity
SOC 2
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$165k – $250k per year • Equity • Remote/Hybrid • Full-Time • San Francisco
Python
JavaScript
Microsoft Entra ID
Zero Trust
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≈ $11k – $23k per year (Estimated) • In office • Full-Time • Almaty
Python
SQL
ETL/ELT
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Equity • In office • Full-Time • Almaty
PowerShell
Python
SOC 2
Management
Slack
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≈ $14k – $42k per year (Estimated) • In office • Full-Time • 1+ year exp • Almaty
ComfyUI
Prompt Engineering
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Equity • In office • Full-Time • Almaty
LLM
AI Agents
LLM Guardrails
Model Context Protocol
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