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🎙️ Señors @ Scale

Deep conversations with senior developers about scaling applications, teams, and careers

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Neciu Dan

Hosted by Neciu Dan

Tech Lead, Co-Founder, Speaker

What is Señors @ Scale?

Señors @ Scale features in-depth conversations with senior developers, tech leads, and software architects who share real-world experiences of scaling applications, teams, and their careers. Each episode unpacks the hard-earned lessons from industry veterans who have been in the trenches.

From scaling applications to millions of users, to growing teams from 5 to 500+ engineers, to navigating complex distributed systems - this podcast delivers practical wisdom you can apply immediately in your work.

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What You'll Learn

📈 Scaling Applications

  • Checkmark Microservices vs monolith trade-offs
  • Checkmark Database scaling strategies
  • Checkmark Performance optimization techniques

👥 Scaling Teams

  • Checkmark Technical leadership strategies
  • Checkmark Building effective engineering culture
  • Checkmark Mentoring and career development

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🎵 Latest Episode

Episode 1 • 57 min

Performance at Scale - With Danilo Velasquez

Staff Engineer at Adevinta shares candid war stories about supporting IE6 in production, building custom Lighthouse monitoring, and why platform engineering is the highest-leverage role.

What Danilo Shares:
  • Internet Explorer 6 support in production (yes, really!)
  • Building a homegrown Lighthouse bot to track 100+ pages every 15 minutes
  • How Core Web Vitals became the trigger for SEO incidents
  • Why platform work is often the highest-leverage role
  • When React "won the war" (and why he still prefers Vue)
  • How a setTimeout(0) hack saved his team's performance

"A candid, technical, and surprisingly human look at engineering at scale — packed with lessons for frontend leads, staff engineers, and anyone optimizing in the wild."

Why Señors @ Scale?

  • Checkmark Real-world scaling stories from senior engineers and architects
  • Checkmark Deep technical discussions about architecture patterns and trade-offs
  • Checkmark Career insights for developers transitioning to senior roles
  • Checkmark War stories from scaling applications to millions of users
  • Checkmark Leadership and team building strategies for tech leads
  • Checkmark Latest trends in software architecture and system design
  • Checkmark Practical advice you can apply immediately in your work

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Neciu Dan
Neciu Dan

Tech Lead, Co-Founder, Speaker with experience scaling applications to millions of users. Dan has worked with teams ranging from startups to enterprise, and is passionate about sharing the hard-earned lessons from the trenches.

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