About Stan Lee

I’m a software engineer with over fifteen years of experience building systems across very different layers of the stack—from low-level, hardware-adjacent software to large-scale web platforms used by real customers every day. My career didn’t follow a straight line. I started deep in system-level engineering, spent years debugging and customizing complex environments, and eventually made a deliberate shift into web development to work closer to products, users, and impact. That transition reshaped how I think about engineering: not just how things work, but why they matter.

Over the years, I’ve worked as a backend engineer, frontend engineer, and full-stack engineer, designing APIs, GraphQL platforms, distributed systems, and user-facing applications. I’ve helped build enterprise-scale products, supported high-stakes launches, and worked across teams with very different constraints—from fast-moving startups to regulated industries. Along the way, I’ve learned that good software engineering is less about chasing trends and more about fundamentals: clear thinking, solid abstractions, and an understanding of trade-offs.

sweng.dev is where I write to consolidate what I’ve learned and explore what I’m still learning. You’ll find articles about system design, backend and frontend engineering, architecture decisions, tooling, performance, and occasionally the less-discussed parts of the job—career transitions, technical debt, and how engineers grow over time. I aim to write for engineers who want depth without fluff, and practicality without dogma.

Lately, I’ve also been exploring AI and agent-based systems—not as a buzzword, but as another set of tools that engineers need to understand deeply to use responsibly and effectively. This blog is both a record of that journey and a place to think out loud, test ideas, and share patterns that might help others. If you’re someone who enjoys building things, questioning assumptions, and improving incrementally, you’re in the right place.