I started in 2020 keeping servers and backend systems running. Then I spent a couple of years doing growth work for businesses moving online, which is an odd detour for an engineer and the most useful thing I did. Now I build products full-time.
KavachBot came out of that. It protects Discord communities from raids and abuse, enforces rules without anyone watching, and puts a server back together after someone breaks it. SunoBot followed on the same infrastructure. Both are live, both have paying users, and both mean I find out quickly when I get something wrong.
What I actually like is owning a thing end to end. The architecture, the code, the deploy, and the unglamorous part afterwards where you have to go and find people who want it. Most engineers skip that last step. Doing it changes what you choose to build.