Welcome to dsj.blog

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Introduction

Welcome to dsj.blog. I’m Dan Jennings, an engineering leader and hands-on builder. Throughout my career—from scaling mission-critical infrastructure at Meta to driving enterprise technology strategy as a Fortune 100 CTO at Walgreens—I’ve focused on a core principle: ensuring investments in technology efficiently deliver meaningful, measurable business value.

Key Concepts

What to Expect

I’ve created this space to share practical insights and lessons learned from the trenches of engineering leadership and high-scale software development. Here is what I will be covering:

  • Engineering Leadership & Scaling Teams: Strategies for fostering talent density and implementing Agile Aligned Autonomy to build, empower, and scale high-performance organizations.
  • Building Resilient Software: Practical takeaways from designing and operating high-availability, massive-scale ecosystems where failure is not an option.
  • New Technology & Agentic AI: A significant focus of this blog will be the pragmatic application of new technologies, especially generative and agentic AI. We will explore how to bridge scalable data architectures with custom AI workflows to automate complexity and unlock tangible business value.

Conclusion

My goal is to provide actionable perspectives for both executives looking to align technology with customer-centric business goals, and engineers building the next generation of enterprise platforms.

Subscribe to join me on this journey as we explore what it takes to build great products, leverage emerging AI technologies, and lead exceptional teams.