tech founder's guide - Remote Winners

5 Core Skills Every AI Engineer Needs

By Anjana Silva November 1, 2026Tech Founder's Guide

The five core skills every AI engineer needs are retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), evals, agent orchestration, vector databases and observability. Most teams are strong on one or two and blind on the rest. Here is what each one actually involves, drawn from 16 years in software engineering and 5+ years leading remote engineering teams.

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ENISA Threat Landscape 2026: 10 Key Threats and How to Prevent Them

By Anjana Silva October 11, 2026Tech Founder's Guide

The ENISA Threat Landscape 2026 highlights 10 key threats: Smishing Triad, Mydocs, Hazy Hawk, ShinyHunters, Qilin, Akira, SafePay, NoName057(16), ClickFix and AI-enabled attacks. Most still exploit the basics: weak identity, poor patching and untested recovery. Here's one practical fix for each, from 16 years in software engineering.

78 Software Design Principles Every Engineer Should Know (and Every CTO Should Champion)

By Anjana Silva September 27, 2026Recognition & Career Growth, Tech Founder's Guide

Software design principles are proven guidelines, such as DRY, KISS, loose coupling, least privilege and idempotency, that help engineers build code and systems that are easier to change, scale, secure and test. Here are 78 of them across eight areas, drawn from 16 years in software engineering.

5 Best Practices for Organising Your Codebase to Scale

By Anjana Silva September 13, 2026Tech Founder's Guide

Organising your codebase for scaling comes down to five habits: centralise configuration as a single source of truth, separate business logic from presentation, apply consistent patterns for cross-cutting concerns, treat asynchronous work as a first-class feature, and cache with a single point of control for invalidation.

5 App Authentication Strategies for Non-Technical Founders

5 Authentication Strategies for Non-Technical Founders

By Anjana Silva August 30, 2026Tech Founder's Guide

Authentication strategies for non-technical founders come down to five decisions: enable social login, offer enterprise SSO, use a managed authentication service, adopt passkeys, and deploy multi-factor authentication early. These are the choices I give every founder before they let a first user near their login screen.

10 UX Best Practice Patterns

By Anjana Silva August 16, 2026Tech Founder's Guide

UX best practice patterns are proven, reusable solutions to common design problems, from skeleton screens and progressive disclosure to large clickable targets and destructive action warnings. This guide covers ten of the patterns that remove the most friction for the least effort, curated for founders and product teams.

5 App Maintenance Strategies for Non-Technical Founders

By Anjana Silva August 9, 2026Tech Founder's Guide

App maintenance strategies for non-technical founders come down to five decisions: budget for the software tax, set up automated error monitoring, secure a support retainer, audit third-party integrations quarterly, and enforce a code freeze during updates. Fifteen years in software engineering, distilled into what keeps a product alive after launch.

5 Engineer Hiring Strategies for Non-Technical Founders

By Anjana Silva July 26, 2026Tech Founder's Guide

Engineer hiring strategies for non-technical founders come down to five decisions: get a fractional CTO first, hire for communication as much as code, run a paid trial before any offer, never let a candidate define their own role, and document from day one.