• Fraught with Peril

    This essay is broken up into three parts and I will publish each piece separately over the next few days: I hope you find the writing enlightening, educational, and empathetic. Weeks ago, a close friend and I were enjoying beers, catching up. I lamented several stories about my professional journey, sharing ups and downs in…

  • We’re Sailing the Seven Seas!

    Hey gang, It’s been a while – after launching in September, the holidays came swiftly. That time was not wasted! During that period, I performed outreach to customers, asking for help smoke-testing the platform. After approximately 2.5 weeks, I collected a few pieces of feedback that confirmed feature functionality and validated my engineering and launch…

  • Sailing to Production

    6 months after my initial deadline – I have finally shipped my first version of the application to Production! In other projects, I have a bad habit of shipping code directly to master/main branches or messing around in a “production” environment directly. This time around, I realized that I need to have some discipline and…