I've been in rooms where the job wasn't to impress, it was to stop a fire.

Fifteen minutes, three dashboards, and one decision. A billion-dollar panel needed to know where their conversion data was breaking down, and they didn't want a consultant. They wanted a technician with judgment.

I gave them a breakdown of postback loss, layered with concurrency spikes from paid social. Not sexy, but true. We identified two leaky APIs and a malformed webhook that was dropping 11% of high-intent events. Quiet chaos.

They nodded. Asked one question. Made the decision. That was it.

Sometimes your best work is the one nobody sees. That's how you know it mattered.