<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Adnan Sharif — Blog</title><description>Software Engineering Lead with 8+ years designing, scaling, and operating high-throughput backend systems, and leading engineering teams of up to 9 across the full delivery lifecycle. Proven record of cutting query and load times by 90%+ on multi-tenant systems handling 10M+ records per tenant, with deep experience in Agile Scrum delivery, CI/CD, and cross-functional mentoring. Versatile engineer across statically-typed, object-oriented ecosystems (C#/.NET, C++, Java) and cloud platforms, with a consistent track record of ramping quickly on new stacks and tools.</description><link>https://www.adnansharif.dev/</link><item><title>The Crack That Kills Codebases</title><link>https://www.adnansharif.dev/blog/broken-window-in-software-engineering/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.adnansharif.dev/blog/broken-window-in-software-engineering/</guid><description>Codebases don&apos;t rot from bugs. They rot from the small compromises everyone walks past — and there&apos;s a 1980s crime theory that explains exactly why.</description><pubDate>Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item></channel></rss>