2025 Year in Review

TLDR: 2025 was an incredibly intense but exciting year, filled with career highlights, plenty of travel, and new connections.

• 🇩🇪Second year back in Berlin and I've started to settled in
• 🇫🇷🇺🇸🇸🇪🇵🇱🇫🇮🇨🇭🇺🇸🇫🇷🇫🇮🇪🇸🇪🇸Took 11 trips (2 personal, 9 for work): Paris (2x), Mountain View, Stockholm, Warsaw, Zurich, New York, Helsinki (2x), Málaga, and Madrid.

• Joined Google DeepMind in February
• Feeling incredibly grateful to be part of such an amazing group, I truly have the best teammates
• Visited the Google campus in Mountain View, a dream come true since my university days
• Contributed to key launches for Gemini 2.5, Gemini 3, Nano Banana 🍌, Veo 3, and more
• Worked to improve the developer experience across our models, APIs, SDKs, & AI Studio.
• Helped shape the Gemini API docs & cookbooks, still trying to ship improvements every week
• Created a comprehensive Gemini workshop on GitHub
• Led some partnerships to improve DX for Open Source frameworks
• Traveled a lot to give ~20 talks and workshops on building with Gemini, from big stages 1, 2, 3 to smaller community meetups
• Started teaching on the Google for Developers YouTube channel (Nano Banana guide, vibe coding, Gemini 3 for devs)
• Published technical blog posts (Nano Banana dev guide, Batch API improvements, Gemini's multimodal capabilities)
• Created a bunch of demos, like the 📍Gemini & Google Maps tool

It's not really worth its own section anymore, but for the sake of tradition, here are the 2025 personal YouTube channel stats:

• 1 video (damn, again🥲)
• 1.5M views
• 91K watch hours
• +13.2K subscribers
• $3,880

• Could go back into running after a year-long injury, now I can comfortably run 10K again and I'm incredible grateful for that. In the whole year I managed to accumulate 241 km
• Second year of indoor cycling with Beat81, still a lot of fun, want to do more of it
• Explored more nature around Berlin with my gravel bike
• Invested in a yearly subscription for the Pliability app to do more stretching (~$120, worth it)

• Worth its own section because of the many, many, many new people I met, mostly thanks to work. This includes not just colleagues, but also people from all the events I attended. I'm grateful for so many great new connections this year, some of whom have become very special to me 😊
• Not gonna lie, I had a bit less time and energy for my social life in Berlin, but overall I still managed to make time for the people who are important to me. I hope to prioritize this even more next year

• Slightly fewer work trips
• 10x more building and shipping
• Run a half marathon
• Continue stretching 3x/week
• Read 12 books
• Prioritize social life more
• Start 1 new non-tech hobby

In summary, 2025 was a true peak in my career, an incredibly rewarding whirlwind that was equal parts intense, stressful, and exhilarating. I just took 3 weeks off to recharge, and I can't wait to start shipping again! I'm super excited for the AI breakthroughs coming in 2026 😊

Cheers,

— Patrick