me

I’m not much of a talker, but let me rant about myself for a bit. You can skip ahead to:

My full curriculum vitae can be viewed here.

superpowers

I’m an aspiring full-stack developer (with a front-ended tilt). I’m interested in all kinds of visual communication, but my major focus is on designing web applications & interfaces. I love (and preach) all things JavaScript, semantic HTML, the power of CSS & progressive enhancement. Lately I’ve really enjoyed tinkering with:

I work great with designers (challenging their perspective on things), other devs & less-techy folk (pretty sure that’s the technical term for it).

I’ve also dabbled in other fields (and hope to perfect them in the future), like:

education

Being a self-claimed autodidact, I consider myself a proud drop out. Instead of going the standard university route (BSc, MSc, internships, etc.), I pivoted and spent my time tinkering on small private projects, reading books & articles and listening to podcasts.

My biggest educational growth though came from the first few months at my first job and I believe my hunger for knowledge has sky-rocketed ever since. I also love meetups and conferences (…it’s the free stickers) and have talked at a few.

If you care about the more official part of this, here’s a rundown:

favourite learning resources:

Podcasts

News/article feeds

labor

I like fiddling small components and scripts on codepen, jsfiddle, gist and on my Arduino.

* Unfortunately, I can’t show most of my past work on here for legal reasons. It’s good stuff though.

I started out creating websites for neighbours and small companies, which really sparked a passion. Here’s what I’ve been up to since:

Klaus

Technical lead

April 2022

Grew our front-end team from 1 (me) to 9. Helped set up Shaping and organised hackathons, product initiatives and shaped the engineering team culture.

Product engineer

July 2018 - April 2022

Klaus is a SaaS product that lets customer support agents conduct conversation reviews. Besides the main app, I also wrote and manage Klaus’ browser extensions, a Zendesk app and a couple of other small widgets. I advocate open-source, best practises, progressive enhancement and security to the best of my abilities and try to integrate them into the developer culture that we are still shaping.

Bigbank

Technical consultant @ Bigbank

July 2018 – June 2019

Front-end developer

July 2015 – July 2018

I started out supporting an in-house Wordpress theme, helping marketers create pages with a page builder. Worked with the design team to unify the corporate visuals across multiple countries and platforms (also implemented a pattern library). I then shifted bit more towards Node’s full-stack world and worked with microservices and the Wordpress REST API to render its contents as a separate Vue application. I’ve learned heaps about virtualisation, dockerisation, CI & CD, security, authentication, and too much about front-end itself to even list.
My last product in the company was a Vue-based component library, coupled with an in-house Express middleware and some internal vue-cli@3 plugins to help developers quickly spin up new applications & product instances.

Saue high school

Programming teacher

Autumn 2015 – Spring 2016

My job was to give my students a basic understanding of the principles of programming, whilst keeping it a fun learning experience. I teach Python mostly through games and active user input, so their first experience with programming wouldn’t be stale.

Freelance

Started 2014

Programming has long been an interest of mine. Having also a soft spot for the artsy side in me—front-end development seemed like an excellent field to start gaining some experience.

In my free time I enjoy working on my motorcycle, disc golfing, learning BJJ & Blender, bouldering… and starring GitHub repos ⭐.