Devon K. Mercer

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Venture Partner & Technical Advisor, Foundry One

Advising high-growth engineering organizations from Seed to Series B. Former VP Engineering scaling distributed platforms to 50M+ users.

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The Series B Architecture Trap: How Premature Microservices Decoupling Burns $4M/Year

A forensic retrospective on 14 startup infrastructure failures. Transitioning from a modular monolith to 42 independent microservices during early PMF resulted in 3x cloud bills and 60% reduction in developer velocity.

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