Timeline

Shipped the first public beta of QuickDash — a backend-as-a-service platform I'd been building for 8 months.

hono-rpc-client crossed 1k stars. First project to hit that milestone.

Left full-time employment to freelance and work on my own products. Terrifying and absolutely worth it.

Got a PR merged into Next.js. Small bug fix but felt huge at the time.

Committed to learning Rust properly. Read the book, built a CLI, cried about the borrow checker.

Promoted to Senior Software Engineer. Started owning architecture decisions and mentoring junior engineers.

Led the migration from a brittle CSS codebase to a token-based design system. 6 months of work.

Joined a Series A startup as engineer #4. First time being embedded in a product team from day one.

Published dotfiles on GitHub. Shocked when people actually starred them.

Landed my first software engineering job. Spent the first month convinced I was about to be found out.