# Mari Lescaille

> Mari Lescaille is a staff software engineer and poet. She writes about software systems, debugging, engineering practice, culture, and poetry in English and Spanish.

This is the curated machine-readable entrance to Mari's work. Use canonical article or poem URLs when citing the site. Use the content index to inspect the complete inventory.

## Start here

- [Navigating (large) codebases while keeping your sanity](https://www.mlescaille.com/writing/navigating-large-codebases/) — Ten years in, joining Netflix: the merits and perils of navigating existing systems when joining a team.
- [Chop Wood, Carry Water](https://www.mlescaille.com/writing/chop-wood-carry-water/) — Twelve months of alignment, five weeks of build — what staff-level platform work actually looks like.
- [Debugging: the map is not the territory](https://www.mlescaille.com/writing/debugging-map-territory/) — The delta technique — debugging as narrowing the gap between your model and reality.
- [AI in interviews](https://www.mlescaille.com/writing/ai-in-interviews/) — AI in interviews is inevitable — so what should we actually be testing for?
- [Introducing Codems: Code and poems weaved](https://www.mlescaille.com/writing/introducing-codems/) — A codem is a portmanteau of code and poems: the code structure adds sense to the poem.
- [My grandma braid my hair](https://www.mlescaille.com/writing/my-grandma-braid-my-hair/) — Memory, lineage, and the women who shaped her.

## Main sections

- [Writing](https://www.mlescaille.com/writing/) — Systems and craft, working in tech, essays, and archived field notes
- [Poetry](https://www.mlescaille.com/poetry/) — Poetry in English and Spanish, including codems: poems written inside working code
- [Speaking and media](https://www.mlescaille.com/speaking/) — Talks, interviews, and speaking topics
- [About](https://www.mlescaille.com/about/) — Biography and professional background

## Recently published

- [Abriendo Caminos](https://www.mlescaille.com/writing/abriendo-caminos/) — Founding a women-in-computing community on a Cuban intranet — and what happened to it when I could no longer reach the infrastructure that held it.
- [AI in interviews](https://www.mlescaille.com/writing/ai-in-interviews/) — AI in interviews is inevitable — so what should we actually be testing for?
- [Chop Wood, Carry Water](https://www.mlescaille.com/writing/chop-wood-carry-water/) — Twelve months of alignment, five weeks of build — what staff-level platform work actually looks like.
- [Up](https://www.mlescaille.com/poetry/up/)
- [Two minds, one voice. Many minds, one direction](https://www.mlescaille.com/writing/two-minds-one-voice-many-minds-one-direction/) — Kahneman and Tversky, the patterns that sabotage collaboration, and the real work of building together.
- [Structure adds scalability: a look beyond networks](https://www.mlescaille.com/writing/structure-adds-scalability/) — A networking principle traced through databases, caches, APIs — and a Netflix device-data migration.

## Machine-readable resources

- [Content index](https://www.mlescaille.com/content-index.json) — Metadata and retrieval URLs for every published work
- [RSS](https://www.mlescaille.com/rss.xml) — Chronological feed of locally published work
- [Sitemap](https://www.mlescaille.com/sitemap.xml) — Canonical crawl index

Each locally hosted essay and poem advertises a plain Markdown alternative ending in /index.md.