Engineering & leadership

Raffaele Pizzari

Hands-on engineering manager in Munich, still writing code. I write about engineering craft, leadership, and AI when it's worth it.

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About

Senior Engineering Manager at Quantilope in Munich. Before that, Accenture Song. Before that, startups, agencies, a company I founded, and a teaching gig at a university in Rome.

I write about engineering leadership and AI in development here, mostly the questions I haven't settled myself. Outside of work: family, photography, chess, and side projects.

Raffaele Pizzari

Writing

Dec 3, 2025 The Paradox of AI-Acceleration: Why We Are Typing Faster but Shipping Slower AI lets us generate more code—but cycle times aren't dropping. Why velocity without tests, review, and observability just adds mass and risk. Jan 8, 2025 From IC to Engineering Manager: First 90 Days Your first 90 days as an engineering manager: what to do, what to avoid, and how to set yourself and your team up for success. Sep 11, 2024 Using AI in the Software Development Lifecycle (Without Slowing Shipping) Where AI helps in the SDLC—and where it doesn’t. How to adopt AI coding tools and automation without slowing down delivery. May 12, 2023 How to Run Effective Engineering 1:1s (Agenda, Frequency, Outcomes) A practical guide to engineering 1:1s: how often to run them, what to put on the agenda, and how to turn conversations into clear outcomes and trust.

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Last updated: March 2026 · Munich

Building

Autonomous agent systems for production use. Not demos: real systems where AI owns parts of engineering workflows. The hard problems are boundaries, fallbacks, and the organizational trust needed to let agents run unsupervised.

Studying

AWS DevOps Professional. Infrastructure-as-code, multi-account strategy, incident response at scale.

Thinking about

Engineering culture under AI acceleration. When velocity goes up and human review goes down, what holds a team together? Probably taste: the shared sense of what's worth building. How to cultivate that is an open question.

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