Where the 10,000 hours went.

Cloud engineering, orchestrating AI models, and mentoring the junior engineers who pretend to listen to me. It's a genuinely interesting time to be building with AI tech.

My real introduction to the startup world — loved the many hats and being involved across the whole product pipe. We were chasing the maddening, elusive single layer between any health system's EHR and any app built on top of it. I really wished it had worked.

Where I learned what it means to get software out the door — first decade of my career, real production systems, real customers. I also saw firsthand how a large company can stay focused on doing what it has always done, slow to change.