finally got the promotion and the packet took longer to write than the actual work it described

Three weeks of writing, rewriting, asking two people to read drafts, cutting half of it because it read like a resume instead of a case. The actual engineering work behind it happened over six months without me tracking any of it carefully, which meant half the packet was just reconstructing what I'd done from old PRs and calendar invites. Starting a running doc this time so next cycle isn't archaeology.