Product Owner building software for solar, heat-pump and EV installers at 2Solar by Sollit. On the side: a small Dutch web studio, a loud homelab, and a deep suspicion of any process that claims to be special.
Four lanes. Day job first, the rest second.
I build software for the solar industry — specifically 2Solar by Sollit, a platform that tries to get installers of solar panels, heat pumps, EV chargers and home batteries from first customer contact to invoice without setting fire to their own planning. Product Owner since April 2024.
I arrived at product the boring way: enough time in support, control, and implementation that eventually someone let me near the roadmap. A lot of the job is translating "our process is unique" into "it's the same bottleneck with different labels", and turning urgency into prioritisation — corporate Dutch for disappointing people with structure.
Outside the day job I write code. Mostly TypeScript — Next.js, Node, a boring relational database, sessions I can actually reason about. I like small tools that do one thing well and outlive the framework churn, and I'd rather ship something modest on Tuesday than something heroic next quarter.
I run a small rack at home: Proxmox hypervisor, Unraid NAS, 32 containers, 346 TiB of storage, automated TLS, backups to Cloudflare R2, my own mail, my own media. Overkill for the studio, completely unnecessary for the day job, and useful for staying honest about how software actually behaves when nobody is watching.
At younique.dev I take on a handful of client projects a year — websites, web apps, and small internal tools for Dutch SMEs. One person, direct contact, no templates.
Sales support → service control → business control → implementation → product. The long way around, on purpose.
By the time I started writing roadmap items, I'd already lived in the planning board, the service tickets, and the billing runs. I trust customer input more when it survives contact with actual implementation.
Boring, bewezen, debugbaar om 23:00.
The things I put my name on.
A honest snapshot of this week, not a roadmap.
Email for studio work or a chat; LinkedIn if you're hiring.