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April 18, 2026 · Automation COE

When your vendor's API goes dark: building bots that adapt

A walkthrough of the hybrid automation pattern we use to keep HR onboarding running when upstream vendors deprecate endpoints without warning.

Ananya Iyer · 7 min read
April 3, 2026 · Platform Engineering

Same product, new front door: two ways to author the same orchestration

Why we gave our developers a flow-based designer on the same runtime we use for BPMN. And how it changed our platform velocity.

Rohan Deshmukh · 9 min read
March 21, 2026 · Accrual Capital

Credit is not a straight line: rebuilding commercial lending as a case

Why our 11-day decision cycle became a 2.9-day decision cycle when we stopped forcing credit into a linear diagram.

James Okafor · 11 min read
March 8, 2026 · Quality Engineering

Testing 420 bots: a love letter to pipeline engineers

How we test automation at the scale we now operate it. Hint: we stopped caring about individual test script reviews and started caring about end-to-end behavior.

Priya Mathur · 6 min read
February 12, 2026 · Office of the CIO

Our 2026 AI roadmap: what the board asked us, and what we told them

The board put AI ROI on the standing agenda. We spent a weekend writing down what we actually believe. Here is the strategy that came out of it.

Lin Xu · 12 min read
January 22, 2026 · Platform Engineering

Eight people, one bank

How we staff platform engineering for a 14 million customer bank without burning people out. It is mostly about saying no well.

Rohan Deshmukh · 5 min read
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