Reflections from a full-stack engineer who started with small websites and ended up building systems for banking, government, and marketplaces. Ten years ago, I wrote my first lines of production code for small business websites in Tbilisi. Since then, I’ve built internal systems for a bank, worked on platforms serving hundreds of thousands of users at the Ministry of Healthcare, contributed to some of Georgia’s biggest online marketplaces, and today I develop backend solutions for an int...