Wore many hats
(Engineering hat) Led the software team ahead of crucial first customer deployments of the Blaise on-demand transit platform in municipalities, improving engineering processes (containerization, automated testing, CI/CD) to ensure reliability and scalability while shipping code (React Native, Mapbox, Docker, AWS). (Product/sales hat) Spearheaded customer outreach/sales, demoing to municipality councils, defining the product roadmap from customer needs, and managing deployments, resulting in a successful first customer.