Still writing the code.
Still leading the team.

My husband got laid off in 2023. Instead of job hunting, he went out and built a real cleaning business by hand — recruited maids, trained them, found clients, and ran actual jobs. No app. No platform. Just hustle and a clear vision.

I got laid off in February 2026. So I went all-in on building the technology to scale what he'd already proven works.

That's MaidLink. And that's what building for real looks like.

Before this, I spent 14 years as a Software Engineering Manager and Tech Lead — shipping products, building teams, and never quite letting go of the code. I'm the kind of engineering leader who still writes it. That combination is rarer than it should be.

I've spent 14 years in the room when things ship and when they don't. I've built teams, set technical direction, managed delivery under pressure, and made the calls that don't have clean answers.

The part that makes me unusual: I never stopped coding. Most engineering managers drift away from the code as they move into leadership. I stayed close to it by choice — because it makes me a better leader, a better reviewer, and a better judge of what's actually hard vs. what just sounds hard.

Right now I'm building a production AWS serverless application on Bedrock — solo, while co-running a startup. Shipping real agentic AI, not just talking about it. That's the proof.