My guess as to what's going on here is that what the founder actually wants is for you to be the expert on the deployment environment & related tools to help sh

My guess as to what's going on here is that what the founder actually wants is for you to be the expert on the deployment environment & related tools to help ship things faster (in the short-run) and fix things when they break. On the other hand, what you actually want is to spend a bunch of time up-front building tools and processes to keep things stable. Somehow what each of you expects and wants from the other was miscommunicated.