Forty-seven days from first commit to first alternate user email.

What I didn’t expect was that this project would remind me who I am.

I’ve spent years in product leadership — executing roadmaps, stakeholder alignment, strategic narratives. Important work. But what made me fall in love with technology in the first place was building things.

RoleFinder brought that back. Repeating the cycle I learned with the Internet itself: see a problem, design a solution, build it, watch it run, fix what breaks, ship it. Product thinking and engineering craft, working together. That’s where I’m happiest.

Nine months of job searching. A pain point no existing tool could solve. Two workshops that made me say “what took you so long?” Seventeen days to a working system. Then, last week, it sent an email to an alternate address. That sounds small, but it meant if it could handle two, it could handle two hundred.

Along the way, I relearned things I’d forgotten. Build for the next user before you’re done being the first. Sometimes the architecture that breaks you is doing you a favor. And AI collaboration isn’t magic — it’s discipline, shared context, and approving every change with your own eyes.

RoleFinder is going open source. Why? Because the job market right now is brutal. Especially in tech. People have been out of work for months. Some for over a year. Job hunting has gotten harder in every dimension: you have to go deep, go broad, network relentlessly, and prepare for even HR screens at a level that didn’t exist five years ago. I want to give job seekers another tool for their toolbox. In this market, you need every one you can get.

I’ll also offer a managed service for people who’d rather not run their own infrastructure. But the workflows and documentation will be available to anyone who wants them.

It’s nearly ready. One more refactor. But close enough to invite people in.

I’m not a PM who learned to be technical. I’m a builder who learned to tell stories. RoleFinder reminded me that both parts still work.

Interested? [Sign up at launchbridge.co/rolefinder](https://www.launchbridge.co/rolefinder/).

Who’s in?