My Failed Attempt at a Side Project
I set out to build a side project; instead, I attempted to create a codebase for a startup. I learned a lot along the way, but I ultimately failed to launch anything.

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I'm a Staff Software Engineer and have worked at startups for most of my career. I've used Ruby on Rails that entire time and most recently I've been leaning into learning Typescript.
My software engineering experience has primarily been in product facing roles and I've come to love building and shipping high quality experiences to customers. I also enjoy writing technical walk throughs as well as sharing my general thoughts on software engineering.
I set out to build a side project; instead, I attempted to create a codebase for a startup. I learned a lot along the way, but I ultimately failed to launch anything.
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