I was an SRE (one of a very small team) on Houseparty, a now-shuttered Videochat startup. We saw some good traction, but didn't manage to make the hockey stick

I was an SRE (one of a very small team) on Houseparty, a now-shuttered Videochat startup. We saw some good traction, but didn't manage to make the hockey stick continue for long enough and were bought out by Epic Games. I left shortly before them. About a year after that, the pandemic hit, and I was asked to help again as it hyperscaled; Growing 10x our previous peak in the matter of <6 weeks. Millions of people used it to connect with their friends and family in the early and uncertain days of COVID. I put together the cluster and databases that powered all of that. That's definitely my greatest impact, and the part of my career that I'm most proud of.