The end of a chapter, and what I'm building next
I was laid off recently. It wasn't dramatic. No big argument, no performance issues — just a restructure, a meeting, and then suddenly two years of work became the past tense.
It's a strange feeling. Not quite grief, not quite relief. Somewhere in between.
I spent those two years at Purpose Green building Green+, a proptech platform for ESG reporting and property management. I'm proud of what we shipped. A property state management system that actually made sense. Auth flows that didn't make users want to quit. A heating measure configurator that turned genuinely complex business logic into something a non-technical person could use without a manual. Small things to the outside world, but the kind of work that makes a product feel considered.
That work mattered. The ending being out of my hands doesn't change that.
What I've been thinking about since
The timing is strange in another way too — because I genuinely believe we're at an inflection point in how software gets built, and I want to be right in the middle of it.
I've spent the last year going deep on AI-assisted development. Not the surface level stuff — not just autocomplete. I mean using Claude Code in the terminal, building agents into the codebase, treating LLMs as a genuine thinking partner when architecting features. It's changed how I work in ways that feel irreversible. I ship faster. I catch more edge cases. I think more clearly about what I'm actually trying to build before I start building it.
The developers who figure out how to use these tools well — not as a shortcut, but as a multiplier — are going to do the best work of their careers in the next few years. I want to be one of them.
What I'm looking for next
A team that builds things people actually use. A codebase I can be proud of. Colleagues who care about the craft but don't take themselves too seriously. Some autonomy, some trust, and a product worth getting out of bed for.
Senior Software Developer, frontend-focused. Berlin or remote. Available now.
If any of that sounds like your team — I'd genuinely love to talk.