A few months ago, I resigned from my role. As I sat down to update my resume and prep for interviews, a wave of anxiety hit me: I couldn't remember half of what I actually built over the last two years.
Sure, I remembered the massive architectures and the major outages. But the elegant race-condition fix in the authentication module? The week I spent unblocking the junior devs on a legacy database migration? The subtle performance tweaks that shaved 200ms off our core API response time? Gone. I call this Career Amnesia.
We spend 40+ hours a week shipping value, but because everything is scattered across internal Jira boards, GitHub Enterprise PRs, and Slack channels, the moment we lose corporate VPN access, our professional history vanishes. When appraisal season or job hunts come around, we are left completely weaponless, unable to quantify our value to managers or interviewers.
I looked for solutions. Notion and Obsidian require too much manual formatting and rely on you remembering to structure your data correctly. Existing career tools wanted me to sync my company's proprietary Jira data to a random startup's cloud server—a massive compliance violation waiting to happen.
So, I built Tenurr: a lifelong, private career ledger and performance defense hub designed specifically for individual tech professionals. It's live now at tenurr.com (app is at app.tenurr.com).
