Session abstract
What you’ll learn
After two decades building frontend systems across airlines, healthcare, financial services, and government the lessons that matter most aren't about frameworks. They're about judgment. Every senior engineer has been there: the codebase that looked clean at launch but collapsed under its own weight two years later. The abstraction that made sense on paper but confused every developer who touched it. The technical decision that seemed right at the time but cost the team months to undo. This talk shares the architecture decisions that consistently separate systems that scale from systems that struggle when to abstract and when not to, how to design state management you won't regret, how to earn trust from backend teams and product stakeholders, and how to lead technical direction without losing your team along the way. No framework wars. No hype. Just hard-won lessons from 20 years in the trenches across some of the most demanding industries in software.