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Swizec Teller is a software engineer, author, and conference speaker who shares software engineering lessons from production. You might know me from Scaling Fast, Senior Engineer Mindset, or the blog here at swizec.com.
For interviews, quotes, talks, and workshops, email hi@swizec.com. Include your topic, audience, format, and deadline or event date and I'll do my best. My policy is to say Yes as much as possible.
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Bios
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Swizec Teller is a software engineer, author of Scaling Fast and Senior Engineer Mindset, and conference speaker sharing lessons from production without the fluff.
Short bio
Swizec Teller is a software engineer, author, and conference speaker. He builds software at Plasmidsaurus and writes about the work behind shipping in hypergrowth startups: technical leadership, growing teams, making systems useful. His books include Scaling Fast, Senior Engineer Mindset, and Serverless Handbook.
Longer bio
Swizec Teller is a software engineer, author, and conference speaker with two decades of experience building for the web. His work has taken him through startups in education, healthcare, and biotech; he now builds software at Plasmidsaurus. He writes about the practical side of engineering: scaling teams and systems, navigating technical debt, growing into leadership, and using AI while staying responsible for what ships. He is the author of Scaling Fast: Software Engineering Through the Hockeystick, Senior Engineer Mindset, and Serverless Handbook. Through his writing, conference talks, and workshops, Swizec helps engineers connect technical decisions to business and user outcomes. Find his work at swizec.com.
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Interview and speaking topics
- Engineering in the age of AI. What changes when code gets cheap, how teams use coding agents, and why judgment and production ownership matter more than ever.
- Scaling fast. Growing the business, the team, and the technology together; balancing speed, quality, and technical debt during startup growth.
- The senior engineer mindset. Earning trust, taking ownership, mentoring, and leading beyond the code.
- Product engineering. Learning unfamiliar domains, understanding users' workflows, and measuring whether software actually helps.
- Modern web development. React, TypeScript, serverless backends, data visualization, and incremental rewrites of production systems.
See my talks and workshops for past sessions and formats.
Select appearances
A few conversations to get a feel for my work and how I think:
- Become an Epic Product Engineer with Kent C. Dodds (2026): User outcomes, workflow design, and biotech software. Learning from users and building software around real work.
- dearCC with Clara Shih and Chip Huyen (2026): Software engineering careers in the AI economy. What new engineers need when AI can write the code.
- JS-Craft (2026): Startup engineering and the Scaling Fast book. Priorities, writing, career choices, and lessons from startups.
- Humans of Reliability (2026): Code is cheap, reliability isn't. Owning production in the AI era.
- Software Engineering Radio, episode 515 (2022): Becoming a Senior Engineer. Mentorship, influence, and engineering career growth.
On stage
- TechLead Conference (2025): Leadership Insights From Growing 2X in 8 Months.
- React Advanced London (2024): Scaling Fast — Engineering Lessons From ~15 Years of Tech Startups.
- React Summit (2022): You Do Have Time To Build It Twice.
Browse all talks → · GitNation speaker profile
Books
- Scaling Fast: Software Engineering Through the Hockeystick (2025). A practical guide to growing a startup's business, team, and technology through hypergrowth.
- Senior Engineer Mindset (2022). The thinking, ownership, and communication that help engineers take on bigger responsibilities.
- Serverless Handbook (2021). Modern backend development for frontend engineers using JavaScript, TypeScript, and serverless systems.
Official links
- Website: swizec.com
- Newsletter: Software engineering lessons from production
- Social: LinkedIn, Bluesky, X / Twitter
- Code and video: GitHub, YouTube
- Contact: hi@swizec.com