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Welcome to my personal corner of the internet. I’m Alberto Gragera, an engineering manager and builder. This is where I write about engineering management, building teams, technology, and whatever else I find worth sharing. This site is a static archive of my writing — no paywalls, no newsletters, no tracking. Just thoughts in their purest form. The blog was previously hosted on Ghost and has been migrated to a plain Hugo site, served via GitHub Pages. It’s as simple as it gets.

Hi! I am Alberto Gragera, an engineering manager based in Zurich currently working at Google. Before Google I worked at WhatsApp, Karumi (a small consultancy company that I co-founded) and Tuenti (the biggest Spanish social network ever). I started coding at 12, building forums and websites for fun, and never stopped. I care deeply about how teams work — the dynamics, the culture, the systems that make collaboration either soar or sink. Most of what I write here reflects that. ...