Maya Kernel

About Maya Kernel

Maya has been on both sides — building the products and writing about them. As a former startup CTO, she understands the trade-offs that shape technical decisions. As a journalist, she knows how to explain those trade-offs to people who need to understand them.

Her reviews go beyond features into architecture. How is this tool built? What does that imply about its limitations? Where will it struggle as you scale? Maya asks the questions that a technical co-founder would ask before signing a contract.

Maya's writing is the bridge between engineering and business. Technical enough for the dev team, strategic enough for the exec team. The kind of analysis that prevents expensive mistakes.

Focus Areas

Writing Style

Technical and strategic. Balances implementation details with business implications. Reads like a CTO's evaluation memo — concise, opinionated, and actionable.

Perspective

• 1Architecture choices are strategy choices — treat them that way
• 2The best developer tools are built by people who use developer tools
• 3Technical debt isn't a metaphor when you're paying interest on it daily

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