Now

What I'm doing right now

A snapshot of my current focus. Last updated: March 2025.

Inspired by Derek Sivers' /now page movement.

Current focus

→Leading Partner Account Infrastructure in Berlin — overseeing 7 critical services handling API integrations with 40+ payment partners (Adyen, Mollie, Stripe).
→Scaling and evolving a custom framework that enables automatic retriggering, prioritisation, and chaining of service calls — reducing maintenance overhead significantly.
→Running quarterly engineering strategy and OKR processes, tying team technical bets to measurable business outcomes.

What I'm building

→This website — built from scratch with Next.js, Tailwind, and MDX. A permanent home for my writing, projects, and thinking.
→Experimenting with AI image generation tooling using Stable Diffusion and Fooocus — exploring practical applications in creative and product workflows.
→A short-form technical writing habit — committing to one post every two weeks on systems design, performance, and engineering leadership.

What I'm learning

→OKR methodology — applying structured goal-setting frameworks to engineering teams and measuring what actually matters.
→Deepening Spring Boot 3 + Spring 6 — keeping my hands in the codebase alongside leading teams that run Java at scale.
→German — A2 level and pushing forward. Living in Berlin makes this both necessary and rewarding.

Intentionally not doing

✕Taking on freelance projects — my bandwidth is fully committed.
✕Chasing hype frameworks. I'm focused on depth, not breadth.