Engineering Leader, Building the Future of Digital Media.
Engineering manager at Nine, in publishing. Eleven years of writing software, four leading teams. Football on Saturdays, skateboard during the week, snowboard when the season turns — and a curiosity that needs more attention than it gets. This page is the small print — the notebook, the shelves, the route.
BY LUIZ CAVALIERI
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Leadership achievements.
Three pieces of work I'm prepared to talk about — the people side, the platform side, and the practice that ties them together.
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03 ENTRIES
Scaling editorial workflows: WordPress to React.
Cross-team migration delivering a modern editorial experience with zero downtime — supporting 300+ journalists across major Australian mastheads.
React · GraphQL · WordPress API · AWS · Team LeadershipAI in the editorial workflow.
Drove the team's adoption of AI across editorial engineering — drafting helpers, summarisation, image & metadata pipelines, prompt patterns and an evaluation rhythm. Built around editorial trust, with humans firmly in the loop.
LLMs · Prompt Design · Eval Harness · Team AdoptionFrom IC to manager: building the team.
Mentorship rhythms and career frameworks during a rapid growth phase. Four progressions, lower turnover, and an engineering culture that talks honestly about craft.
Mentorship · Career Frameworks · Hiring · CultureTechnical expertise.
The areas I keep my hands in — from AI in publishing to the unglamorous work of mapping how a team actually gets things done.
PRACTICE AREAS
09 DOMAINS
AI & ML
AI for publishing.
LLM tooling, RAG patterns, prompt design and evals — applied to editorial work with care.
LLMs · RAG · Evals · Prompt Patterns
Workflow Efficiency
Making the work flow.
Removing friction from editorial & engineering pipelines. Automation where it earns its keep; restraint everywhere else.
Automation · CI/CD · Editorial Tooling · Toil Reduction
Process Mapping
Mapping the terrain.
Process modelling, value-stream mapping and BPMN where it helps a team see itself clearly — before redesigning anything.
BPMN · Value Streams · Service Design
AI Engineering
AI features, built to last.
Building AI-powered features the publishing team actually trusts. Eval harnesses, observability, and the quiet plumbing behind "magic".
LLM Apps · Eval Harness · Observability · Pipelines
Engineering Leadership
Teams, careers, strategy.
Building, growing and steering engineering teams across multiple concurrent initiatives.
Team Building · Performance · Hiring · Cross-team
Content Management
CMS & editorial systems.
Deep practical knowledge of CMS architecture, multi-tenant publishing, and the workflows behind a newsroom.
WordPress · Gutenberg · React CMS · Multi-tenant
Full-Stack
Web at scale.
Modern, opinionated stacks. Type-safe by default, observable by design.
React · TypeScript · GraphQL · Node · Postgres
Media & Publishing
High-traffic publishing.
Newsroom workflows, content distribution and resilient delivery on busy days.
Distribution · Newsroom Tools · High Availability
Strategy
Migrations, redesigns, re-platforming.
Planning and executing the kind of work that takes more than one quarter.
Architecture · Migration · Performance · Roadmaps
The best problems sort themselves out somewhere between gear changes.— Notebook · Wonnangatta · May
From developer to engineering leader.
The route, told briefly — the balance between technical practice and people leadership.
WAYPOINTS
03 STAGES
Started writing for the web.
First production code, first deploy, first rollback at 3am. The kind of beginning where you don't yet know how much you don't know.
Got quieter, more useful.
Senior IC. The point where you stop trying to be the smartest person in the room and start trying to make the room smarter.
Engineering manager.
Engineering manager at Nine, publishing division. Editorial tooling, newsroom systems, AI in the workflow, and a small group of very good engineers I get to work for.
Writing notes from the desk.
Thoughts on engineering leadership, software architecture, AI in publishing, AI Engineering and building good teams.
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