How I Build: Durable Systems, Collaboration by Design, and Phased Transition
Three principles behind how I approach system-building: design for durability, make collaboration structural, and move through work in clear phases.
What It Is
Technical Documentation is the creation of structured materials explaining systems and processes. On this site, it matters because it transfers across technical, operational, and venture work instead of staying trapped in one narrow context.
Learn more: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technical_documentation
Atlassian Confluence
Atlassian Confluence is a team collaboration and documentation platform.
Google Workspace
Google Workspace is a cloud productivity suite including email, storage, and collaboration tools.
Topic Focused Workflow: A Better Way to Organize Commitments and Responsibilities
A practical operating pattern for organizing work and life around clearly defined topics so tools, spaces, and responsibilities stay aligned.
YAML
YAML is a human-readable data serialization format used widely in configuration.
Colophon
How mikeaorlando.com is built, maintained, and published, including the operating model behind the content system.
Git
Git is a distributed version control system.
Notion
Notion is a workspace tool for notes, docs, and project organization.
Agile Team Management as Engineering Manager
Helped a team of 10 engineers adopt issue tracking, documentation, sprint planning, standups, demos, and retrospectives. Introduced workstreams based on team...
AWS Cloud Adoption FinOps Initiative
Developed a FinOps program to modernize cost awareness and resilience across AWS for a 150-person engineering team — including meetings, guidance, tool setup,...