- Ahmed Al Sharif works in software engineering and consumer electronics and previously worked for Meta.
- The CTO found himself caught up in the outage-induced travel chaos on Friday.
- He said CrowdStrike broke a cardinal rule for developers, and the fallout has been eye-opening.
This as-told-to essay is based on a transcribed conversation with Ahmed Al Sharif, 32, the CTO of Sandsoft, a game developer. Al Sharif was stranded at Barcelona airport amid the IT outage disrupting travel and other services. The following has been edited for length and clarity.
I’ve worked in tech for close to two…
