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I started at Guidewire back in 2017, mostly on WordPress, Wix, and Shopify. Real client sites, real deadlines. That taught me the basics the hard way: ship something people can use, not something that only looks clever in a mockup.
A few years later at MAD Elevator, things clicked. I wasn't just building pages anymore — websites, configurators, ecommerce, mobile apps for contractors and field teams. That's where I learned how a real business runs, and how software only matters if it fits into someone's actual workday. Pretty demos are a dime a dozen. Products people rely on are rarer.