When shit is on fire, you gotta let the professionals cook. Executives breathing down a deeply in-the-debugging-zone engineer is the worst you can do to a resolve an outage.
No, there were dozens of engineers and support staff in the call and incident channels. They were likely expecting me to wake up and learn at a normal time. You don’t want to rely on a CEO for technical disaster recovery work (though I enjoy chiming in 😁)