Engineering standards

When a team moves fast, everyone ends up solving the same problems in slightly different ways. The code gets harder to read, reviews turn into debates about style, and new people have no way of knowing which pattern is the right one to copy.

I set up engineering standards for the team to follow, built around React and Next.js best practice.

Each standard came with clear dos and don'ts, and real examples of both, so it was obvious what good looked like rather than left to interpretation.

I also walked people through them in talks at our weekly knowledge share, so people heard the reasons behind each standard and could ask about them, rather than just reading a document.

The standards caught on beyond my own team and were adopted across the company.