You really, really, really don't need an effect! I swear!
Before you write another useEffect, ask one question: is this syncing with an external system? If not, there's a better way.
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Neciu Dan is a seasoned software engineer with over 14 years of expertise in the tech industry, host of the Señors @ Scale podcast, and creator of the sold-out Lizard to Wizard engineering workshop. He has a proven track record, having served as the technical co-founder and tech lead of CareerOS, a Senior Product Engineer at the New York e-commerce brand AdoreMe, and a Senior Software Engineer at the food delivery company Glovo.
Beyond his technical contributions, Dan is an esteemed international speaker and mentor. He passionately encourages best development practices, with a keen focus on testing, accessibility, and security. His recent speaking engagements include esteemed conferences like React Alicante, React Summit, React Rally, Utah JS, Techorama, and Frontmania.
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Episode 30
58 minutes
Señors @ Scale host Neciu Dan sits down with Tyler Benfield, Staff Software Engineer at Prisma, to go deep on database performance. Tyler's path into databases started at Penske Racing, writing trackside software for NASCAR pit stops, and eventually led him into query optimization, connection pooling, and building Prisma Postgres from scratch. From the most common ORM anti-patterns to scaling Postgres on bare metal with memory snapshots, this is the database conversation most frontend developers never get.
Episode 29
52 minutes
Señors @ Scale host Neciu Dan sits down with Corbin Crutchley — lead maintainer of TanStack Form, Microsoft MVP, VP of Engineering, and author of a free book that teaches React, Angular, and Vue simultaneously — to dig into what it actually means to maintain a library that gets a million downloads a week. Corbin covers the origin of TanStack Form, why versioning is a social contract, what nearly made him quit open source, and the surprisingly non-technical path that got him into a VP role.
Episode 28
58 minutes
Señors @ Scale host Neciu Dan sits down with Andrey Sitnik — creator of PostCSS, AutoPrefixer, and Browserslist, and Lead Engineer at Evil Martians — to explore how one developer became responsible for 0.7% of all npm downloads. Andrey shares the discrimination story that drove AutoPrefixer, the open pledge that forced PostCSS 8 to ship, and why the Mythical Man-Month applies directly to LLM agent coordination.
Episode 27
52 minutes
Señors @ Scale host Neciu Dan sits down with Aurora Scharff — Senior Consultant at Creon Consulting, Microsoft MVP in Web Technologies, and React Certifications Lead at certificates.dev — to explore the real mental model shift required to understand React Server Components. Aurora shares her path from Robotics to frontend, what it was like building a controller UI for Boston Dynamics' Spot robot dog in React, and why the ecosystem finally feels like it's stabilizing.
Episode 26
58 minutes
Señors @ Scale host Neciu Dan sits down with Daniel Afonso — Senior Developer Advocate at PagerDuty, SolidJS DX team member, egghead instructor, and organizer of the JNation conference in Coimbra — to explore how a kid who taught himself to navigate the web before he could read became one of the most active voices in the developer community. Daniel shares his origin story, how writing about every hard problem he faced at work became the skill that launched his career, and the one hidden tip every developer should use when joining a new codebase.
Episode 25
55 minutes
Señors @ Scale host Neciu Dan sits down with Lucian Popovici — founder of Bridging Innovation and the free mentorship community Bridging Gaps, former Director at Deloitte Digital Romania where he scaled the team from 0 to 700, and veteran of Deutsche Bank and Ericsson — to talk about what actually happens when engineers become leaders, why the manager title is a trap for the ego-driven, and how AI is reshaping not just team sizes but entire industry models.
Episode 24
52 minutes
Señors @ Scale host Neciu Dan sits down with Anamari Fisher — engineering leader, coach, and O'Reilly author of 'Leveling Up as a Tech Lead' — to explore the first jump into leadership. Anamari shares how she went from software engineer to tech lead and product director, why accountability is the key differentiator from senior engineer, and how to scale your impact through soft skills that actually work in real teams.
Episode 23
69 minutes
Señors @ Scale host Neciu Dan sits down with Florian Rappl — author of 'The Art of Micro Frontends,' creator of the Piral framework, and Microsoft MVP — to explore how micro frontends are transforming how we build scalable web applications. Florian shares hard-won lessons from over a decade of building distributed systems, from smart home platforms to enterprise portals for some of Germany's largest companies.
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