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The CTO’s Dilemma: Building for Speed vs. Building for Scale

Tue, 20 Jan 2026 09:00:00 -0500

It’s the classic startup trap.

On one side, investors and sales teams are screaming for features. “Ship it now, fix it later.” On the other side, your engineers are warning about “technical debt” and “scalability bottlenecks.”

If you ship too slow, you miss the market. If you ship too fast without structure, your product collapses under its own weight just as you start to grow.

This is the CTO’s Dilemma. And for early-stage startups that can’t afford a full-time, experienced executive, this dilemma often leads to fatal mistakes.

Automating SR&ED: Turning Code into Tax Credits

Thu, 08 Jan 2026 11:15:00 -0500

For many Canadian tech companies, the SR&ED (Scientific Research and Experimental Development) tax credit is a vital source of funding. Yet, preparing the claim is often a nightmare of digging through old emails, Jira tickets, and commit logs months after the fact.

We realized that SR&ED compliance should be a byproduct of good engineering, not a post-mortem activity.

The “Shift-Left” Approach to Compliance

With Oloodi Studio, we analyze your engineering activity in real-time.

My Technical Manifesto: Values for a Thriving Team

Mon, 05 Jan 2026 09:00:00 -0500

Editor’s Note: I originally wrote this manifesto in 2022 on my personal blog. Today, as we build Oloodi Technologies, these values are more relevant than ever. They are the DNA of our engineering culture.

We often talk about corporate culture, developer culture, or the mindset of a software engineer within a team. Throughout my experiences, I’ve often faced the question: does this person have the right mindset to join our team?