Building up a financial foundation as an employee can take years. The OP may not have that much time. I therefore suggested algo trading ( their programming ski

Building up a financial foundation as an employee can take years. The OP may not have that much time. I therefore suggested algo trading ( their programming skills come to use ), and creating and selling off products ( where they build things and sell them off, instead of building a SaaS business and getting caught up in all the business building).