IC → Manager tradeoff
Ackshaey Vir Singh — who ran a large engineering team at Opendoor — said he loved mentoring, unblocking engineers, running PIPs and shipping promotions but left management because he missed building work and returned to an IC role (x.com).
Ackshaey’s personal site says he built Opendoor’s marketing-infrastructure team from scratch and grew it to about 10 engineers, responsible for analytics, marketing, and growth systems. (ackshaey.com ) His bio and public profiles list titles as Staff Software Engineer and Engineering Manager at Opendoor, with Opendoor tenure beginning in 2021 and roles shown through 2023. (Crunchbase ) Those profiles also record earlier senior roles at Twitter (tech lead, ads infrastructure) and Oracle, underscoring a career that alternated between hands‑on engineering and people management. (ackshaey.com ) He is founder of Firecode.io and co‑founder/CTO of Designer Discount Club, ventures he lists alongside his Opendoor work and that indicate ongoing product‑building activity outside formal management. (Crunchbase ) The post announcing his move off management was published on X at the URL you saw, and his Medium/DEV posts and site emphasize a preference for shipping product work and technical ownership across his public writing. (X Medium )
