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March 9, 2026 | Episode 22

From Git Blame to Principal Engineer with Sage Pierce | Ep. 22

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Adi Polak talks to Sage Pierce (Indeed) about his career in software engineering and event-driven architectures. Sage’s first job: Java Swing development at a Department of Defense–affiliated research lab. His challenge: working at Indeed on event-driven views and IMI to join data across domains in a polyglot microservices world.

Sage's Atleon project: https://github.com/atleon 

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