The Independent Engineer
Substacknewsletter · by Yaroslav Tkachenko
Helping software engineers grow their careers and turn their expertise into independent businesses.
- Audience
- Not shown publicly
- We show a dash rather than guess
- Observed frequency
- Every two weeks
- From 3 posts indexed in the last 90 days
- Last post
- Oct 19, 2026
- 27 days ago
- Likely audience
- Software engineers
- Inferred from post content
The Independent Engineer is a Substack newsletter by Yaroslav Tkachenko covering solopreneurship, career transition and LLM security. NewsletterFIT indexed 3 posts from it in the last 90 days, most recently on Oct 19, 2026.
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