About

I'm Ali. British, 40, living in Sendai since 2018. I'm an engineering manager at a tech company in Tokyo.

Expect writing on software, agentic engineering, managing people who build with machines that keep changing, the slower craft of shipping. And Japan: essays and half-remembered stories from living here, true in the parts that matter, lightly rearranged to protect the innocent.

Some posts will probably embarrass me in three years.

Always happy to hear from you: ali.najaf@gmail.com