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I finally quit!
6 years. Two companies. Real scale, real teams, real problems shipped to production.
But somewhere around year 4 I noticed something. I was getting very good at building things and had no idea how to pitch them, position them, market them, or own them end to end. Corporate does that to you. Sharper on one side, completely blind on the other.
So last month I walked away.
I am a freelancer now. Full-stack developer working on AI integrations, web applications, performance, and infrastructure. I treat every client project like my own. Edge cases, suggestions, things the brief did not cover. All of it.
Build logs, client work, learnings, failures. What it actually looks like to start from zero after 6 years of corporate.
If you want to know more about me, here is my portfolio: gauravsaxena.site
If you are building in AI or SaaS and need someone who will care about it as much as you do, let's talk.
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