For Max Millien, reality was just another system to optimize. A restless mind. A gnawing hunger for control and escape. When he found chemical oblivion, he treated it like a project to perfect. What began as engineered self-sabotage scaled into a total structural collapse, executed with ruthless precision. But logic cannot patch betrayal, and no architecture survives human chaos. Traffic Engineer is a harrowing memoir of freefall, a six-year exile, and the methodical work of resurrection. It is the record of a man who thought he could hack his way through the dark, only to discover the most complex system he would ever rebuild from zero was himself.