Laid Off and Leveled Up: My Journey to Challenge the Team I Once Called Mine!

Ever been laid off and wondered, what's next? Me too. After 17 years at Comcast, climbing to Distinguished Engineer, I thought I was set—until I wasn't. On the Lightning team, I built a faster, better alternative to their LightningJS framework. When I integrated SolidJS with their renderer, I created competition against my boss's pet project. That marked the end of my time there—but it was just the beginning of something greater. Join me to hear how getting let go turned into my biggest career breakthrough.