I’m a full stack (web and mobile) engineer. When I was on product teams building the actual app experiences, I was so much happier and fully engaged. I thrive from customer feedback calls and working with product manager to build the best solution for the problem at hand. Probably built a dozen calendars and complex grid layouts, tested a few different cart/checkout flows, and improved performance for a tool by rethinking the way it was stored in the database that made it way more flexible for other purposes.

Now I work on purely backend, mostly services for other services, infra stuff, and it’s honestly so boring and dull. I know it’s important work as well, but it’s just not my cup of tea.

Unfortunately it seems that building products doesn’t pay as well as doing this purely backend plumbing. And I want to work on products which people out in the fields or in some specific industry use to do their jobs better. When I was doing this, I felt like I was actually making peoples work experience (and probably sanity) better.

Anyway I am a self taught and I just learned using YouTube videos, official docs/readme, looking at peoples code on GitHub, and also building out my own silly ideas. Probably have a hundred directories of half+ baked projects.

Feel free to reply if you work on an interesting product (please no dashboards for monitoring cloud systems :sob: lol) and looking for a guy who loves to build great app experience. Also down to discuss ideas!