Inspiration: From Developer to Principal Architect in Silicon Valley to Unicorn Builder

Three years in the Bay Area as Principal Software Architect at Databricks. Then building engineering through Mews Series C, eight teams to eighty, while the roadmap kept shipping. Then walking away from a $350k role and carrying $75k of debt to start something of my own. The parts that do not make the LinkedIn version.

You leave with the mentor versus coach versus advisor self-test, so you work out which of the three your next step needs instead of collecting all of them.

Walking away from a $350k role at Mews and carrying $75k of debt to start something of his own, after three years as Principal Software Architect at Databricks in the Bay Area and helping take Mews's engineering org from eight teams to eighty through its Series C. That's the part most inspiration talks cut before the highlight reel starts.

Built for engineers weighing a pivot who are tired of survivorship-bias keynotes. The close is a mentor-versus-coach-versus-advisor self-test, so the next step gets tested against what the room needs, not what looked good on someone else's path.