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A few years ago I inherited a payments service that stored full customer date-of-birth, national ID, and unmasked PAN fragments in the same table it used for...
The worst hiring loop I ever sat in ran seven rounds over five weeks and ended with a candidate we all liked telling us, politely, that she'd taken another...
A few years ago I got paged at 2am because a merchant had been charged three times for the same settlement batch. Not a huge sum, about 4,200 euros total, but...
A few years ago I signed off on a senior backend hire who interviewed beautifully. Sharp answers, confident on distributed systems, name-dropped the right...
The first fraud model I ever put into production was wrong about a third of the time, and it took us two weeks to figure out why. The model was fine. The...
The first team I inherited had already lost two managers in eighteen months, and they told me so in the first meeting. Not as a complaint, exactly. More as a...
