Developer Stories: Mike Dabydeen on Rust, AI & Engineering Leadership
Welcome to another episode of CoderLegion Developer Stories!
In this episode, Tom Smith sits down with Mike Dabydeen, an engineering leader and technology educator from Toronto, Canada.
Mike shares his experience across engineering leadership, enterprise APIs, Rust, systems programming, AI, DevOps, and SRE, as well as his perspective on building reliable software in a rapidly changing technology landscape.
🎥 Watch the Interview
▶️ Watch Mike Dabydeen's Developer Story on YouTube
💡 What We Discuss
- 🦀 Rust & Memory Safety — Exploring Rust, ownership, borrowing, and safe systems programming
- 🤖 AI & Reliable AI — Building and working with AI systems in real-world environments
- ⚙️ Enterprise APIs — Designing and working with APIs at scale
- 👨💻 Engineering Leadership — Lessons from leading engineering teams and projects
- ☁️ DevOps & SRE — Reliability, automation, cloud, and modern engineering practices
- 🎓 Teaching & Mentoring — Mike's experience sharing technology knowledge with the next generation of developers
👨💻 About Mike Dabydeen
Mike Dabydeen is an engineering leader who works across enterprise APIs, decentralized systems, systems programming, and AI.
He also teaches at Sheridan College and Conestoga College and is active in the developer community.
His technical interests and experience include Rust, AI, DevOps, SRE, Java, C, Python, C#/.NET, Go, Kubernetes, AWS, Azure, Docker, React, TypeScript, and more.
🌐 Visit Mike's Website
🎙️ Developer Stories
Developer Stories is a CoderLegion series featuring developers, engineers, technical leaders, and technology professionals from around the world.
We talk about their journeys, experiences, challenges, technologies, and lessons learned along the way.
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Guest: Mike Dabydeen
Interviewer: Tom Smith
Series: CoderLegion Developer Stories
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