Hello, I’m @sebastian and I build digital products

The ability to do things better. Sometimes is enough to have a slightly better idea. Sometimes is enough to understand the essence of the problem a bit better to find out the most effective way. Sometimes you need to sweat harder in terms of design, craft or precision. Sometimes is necessary to go a little bit further, whereas others simply won’t let themselves go.

This is the attitude I always try to honour. Of course, it won’t always do the trick. But I do try anyway.

To know what’s urgent, what our needs are, what and when needs to be done, what is blocking what. That’s one of the byrocratic neccesaries.

Long-term planning, considering important yet non-urgent tasks, technological debt and maintenance, that all is a typical problem in almost every company, which might not even have a solution without complex concept.

Altough it’s not perhaps crucial to do things always right but it is crucial to do right things. Things that efectivelly help and make sense in multiple ways. Things which might create synergy effect and path the way which company would follow along.

I’m focusing mostly on a power of the product itself. So that end user would get what he paid for and had a pleasant experience and will to pay again - that’s very plain and straight-forward strategy that I do believe in.

Together with software architect we disscuss all basic steps to transform the idea into tangible reality - how service gonna work, what hardware to use, if stateless application is needed, kubernetes, cloud servers, and such.

In this area I can usually contribute more with questions than answers but even basic orientation helps to get things done.

I see brand as a strategic tool that speaks for the company even before the product itself has a chance to speak. And that’s why it’s important to me how brand communicate, what exactly, and why.

Copy/writing is also neccesary for a product owner - texts should be in line with particular tonality, unified terms, expressions and patterns should be used. So I do happen to write/proofread a lot of texts myself.

In my eyes, a product manager should be the one carrying values which reflect back to the product and the team. I’m aware of this and trying to act accordingly.

However, integrity is often presumed, but in reality is definitely not a matter of course. I strive to be the one, on which anybody can rely on, both on and off work.

Even though I’m not a professional programmer, I’m still a power-user who can programme easier stuff and configure things. It’s one of my hobbies.

My computers run on Arch Linux, and I do like to write some Python or Bash scripts to mostly automate some work. I also configured company tools such as Jira, Integromat/Make, Google Workspace, various peripheries, and such. I won’t get lost in spreadsheets and I also know how to quit vim!

Long story short, I get most of programmer memes. And at this point, I don’t know if I should be proud of it!

How an application should work and look like for an end user, that has always been my certain passion and natural habitat.

It’s fantastic to cooperate with skilled UX experts and designers, whoom I try to stimulate to acceptable solutions - and we usually do get there.

In the end, work on a product is nothing more than one massive coherent marketing effort. To win, after all, cooperation between all teams is necessary to all converge to the same point, at the same time.

Seamless logical service without major issues, will guarantee a smooth experience and finally further user acquisition.

I’m no HR expert. However, during my time in IT, I’ve trained my nose to recognize solid developers and also means to get their attention when hiring.

In IT, co-workers are pretty much everything. Just a single problematic person is enough to make a team crumble from the inside. I believe that the quality of people is after all the only difference whether the project within its budget, will or will not succeed. It’s mostly about people - and their attitudes.