Mostly Building

Software Sauce Goes Live

After teasing it for months, Software Sauce officially dropped. It's our new series where we put one of our engineers on camera and let them break down something they actually know. Bach kicked it off with how he's been building Cursor style features using the Anthropic SDK, and Alan followed up with a deep dive on Authentication and Authorisation. Long form on YouTube, short form on Instagram and LinkedIn. 3 episodes deep and we're already booked out for the next 10.

Life at Lyra‍

Lyra Recaps kept rolling out across Instagram & LinkedIn, and the look got a upgrade this month with a fresh template courtesy of Isaac. If you haven't been following along, this is your sign.

DevSoc Careers Fest

First week of April we set up at DevSoc Careers Fest with the Lyra banner, a fresh EngFest poster previewing every culture event we're running for the rest of the year, and a rotating cast of engineers manning the booth, because students can read a careers page anywhere but can't read what it actually feels like to work here, so we brought the people instead.

‍LyraClubs, Still Sending

Clubs are not slowing down. Board Games, Cafe Club, MMA, Futsal, Table Tennis, Desserts, Night Out, the Melbourne Cafe crew, all going strong. Some of the team have hit 5 clubs in a single month which feels mathematically suspicious but the receipts check out. The Melbourne Cafe Club has somehow become the unofficial onboarding tour for new hires in the Melbourne office.

Hired Through a Reel

This month we welcomed Marcus Gunn to Lyra and the way we found him says everything about how hiring is going right now. Marcus has been quietly making content breaking down complex technical concepts for non tech audiences, and one of his videos landed in front of us. We reached out, he came in, the rest happened fast. The CV speaks for itself: engineered production systems at Amazon, including diagnosing a live on call incident that took down a compute cluster inside AWS, traced back to a single missing conditional in legacy code. Built and shipped Sheppie as a solo iOS app. Founded AI Pay and raised $40k angel solo. 23,900+ downloads on a macOS utility he built alone, with a 4.7 star rating. Finished 1st place undefeated at the Mind Lab Olympics. Engineers who can build and explain are rare. We got to see both before we ever said hello.

April wasn't a flashy month but a building one. Engineers on camera, content series live, careers fest done, the kind of month where you look back and realise the foundation just got a lot deeper. May is going to be much much louder.

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