Valuable skills I’ve learned throughout my career:

- 2011-2014 side projects: shipping & iterating quickly, navigating idea maze 

- 2015, Coinbase: dealing with high growth, working with exceptional people 

- 2017-2022, Google: managing a team, navigating politics, working with very mature code & infrastructure

cma.xyz. Founder /paragraph, previously at Google and Coinbase

Feeling fortunate to have experienced working in very small to very large environments. 

I think my founder journey would be different if I didn’t experience this breadth


NPC fighting to attain sentience.
Builder of software and songs. CS grad student.

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Agreed, but I think necessary too. Gives more conviction when returning to the former

One of these sounds way less fun than the others

Working with mature code and infrastructure (and established users!) is so under-rated.

Devs who haven’t been through this pain are quick to rewrite code they don’t understand, whereas pros know that years of learned spec are entombed in legacy code.

What wealth of experience you’ve had ser. Still young in my career and my big dream is to be a UX designer at Apple. I’ll keep working hard to climb the ladder.🚀