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We care about one thing: have you taken a hard real-time system and scaled it an order of magnitude, under production pressure, where you were the person responsible?\n\nYou may never have touched video, and that's fine. Maybe you scaled a voice platform from 3K to 30K calls a day with hard latency budgets, backpressure, and failover. Maybe it was streaming, trading, or telemetry. 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