First Hire at a Startup

I was the first engineer at Startup X. That meant building everything — the app, the deploy pipeline, the monitoring, the "why is the database on fire at 2am" investigations. I worked directly with the founders to figure out what the product should be and then actually build it.

##What happened

• Shipped the first version in 3 months. Good enough to raise a seed round on.
• Grew the platform to 100k+ monthly users.
• Hired the first 5 engineers and tried not to mess up the culture.

##Technical Stack