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I'm John Moody — a tech industry veteran with 30+ years of experience, currently building on-premises email delivery systems that handle billions of sends. Writing about engineering leadership, deliverability at scale, and the hard lessons in between.
DMARC aggregate reports are the closest thing email has to server logs for your sending reputation. Here's how to read them — and what they're actually telling you.
A clear, practical guide to the three technologies that prove your emails are legitimate — written for engineers who know distributed systems but not email infrastructure.
Developers using AI tools ship features faster. Designers iterate more quickly. Data scientists analyze in minutes what used to take days. More output per person means fewer people needed for the same goals. Which means fewer managers.
Engineering Manager, Email Platforms @ Klaviyo
Building the systems behind billions of email sends. I write about email infrastructure at scale, engineering leadership, and the messy reality of figuring it out as you go.
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