Zaal is a software developer with many years of experience across the stack from a primarily consulting background. I pick Zaal's brain for an hour about how he approaches integrating with client teams. We cover the first 24 hours of onboarding onto a codebase, dealing with tech debt, turning technical constraints into business decisions, protecting clients from themselves, RFPs, and lots more. Also apparently the original name of this podcast was going to be "Refactor in Blood." I'm not 100% sure what that was about but I still think its a great name for something.