CHOOSE YOUR BUILD / TWO VIABLE LOADOUTS
TEAM LEAD?
HANDS-ON BUILD? BOTH.
Main quest: lead an engineering team, set direction, and stay close to delivery. A senior hands-on role with real ownership? Also in the skill tree.
THE LEADERSHIP TRACK
BUFF THE WHOLE TEAM.
Set the technical direction, make platform calls, unblock delivery, and buff the team. Greg has led modernization work without vanishing into executive vaporware; he stays close enough to the implementation to know if the plan survives contact with reality.
THE HANDS-ON TRACK
OPEN THE CODEBASE.
The loadout is AWS, Terraform, CI/CD, Swift, Python, embedded systems, BLE, and telemetry. Greg can zoom from architecture to code, pipeline, and hardware. The constraints are in the actual system, and that is where he wants the receipts.