'I consider myself to have been mildly underpaid, considering what I was responsible for — the entire deployment experience (including uptime) of Python apps on

'I consider myself to have been mildly underpaid, considering what I was responsible for — the entire deployment experience (including uptime) of Python apps on Heroku, one of the largest deployment platforms in the world.' So, you're saying you don't have enough career experience that this is surprising to you? Megacorps are outsourcing their core processing systems to 3rd level subcontractors, and these are the systems that literally run the economy itself, and have been doing so for nearly 2 decades now if not longer. Is this a just or fair situation? no (in my view) But hardly new or surprising.. and certainly not relevant to the point you're trying to make.