Bye, bye VZnet, Hello ResearchGate

I already announced it on Twitter a few weeks ago, but it’s time to make an official small blog post about it as well.

After nearly three years, I’ll be leaving VZnet at the end of August. My time there was really great. I learned a lot, wrote my bachelor thesis, launched OpenSocial, OAuth2 and VZ-ID, OEmbed and a lot of other stuff, started speaking at national and international conferences and worked in probably one of the best engineering teams in Germany. And VZ parties are legendary as well.

So I’m certainly feeling a bit sad closing this chapter of my live, but on the other hand I’m really excited about what’s to come:

Beginning September I’ll be joining ResearchGate, the leading social network for science and one of the hottest startups in Berlin. RG is still a bit smaller then VZ (around 50 people), but they have a very international team and I’m very much looking forward to creating something which helps scientists to do their work.