Mailshake has terminated my employment after 8+ years. In that time, I... Started as engineer #3 Moved into management thanks to an awesome CTO Ran a 10-person team across backend, frontend, QA, and support Scaled down to 2 engineers while maintaining productivity Reduced annual AWS spend by ~70% over 3 years Was always on-call and handled support escalations Ran technical due diligence on 4 acquisition targets (2 closed) Migrated and maintained acquired products post-close Built agentic systems for development and support triage Pushed AI context to its limits building across 75+ repos Built an email infrastructure product from zero to...