Eight Years in FinTech. Zero Tools for Myself.

There's a particular irony in spending your career building tools that help people make better financial decisions — and not having any of those tools for yourself. That's exactly where I've been for eight years. The Comfortable Trap I'm a Lead Engineer at a global FinTech firm. My day job involves building the infrastructure that wealth management platforms run on — portfolio dashboards, brokerage integrations, API gateways, rendering pipelines under real load. The engineering problems are inte