me

Let me rant about myself for a bit. In my free time I enjoy climbing, working on my motorcycle, disc golfing, BJJ & learning Blender… and starring GitHub repos ⭐.

My full curriculum vitae can be viewed here.

interests

I’m a developer with a soft spot for front-end. 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 regarding usability, JavaScript, semantic HTML, the power of CSS & progressive enhancement. What fires me up is products where you can feel the polish and care that has gone into crafting them. I’d say I work great with designers (challenging their perspective on things), other devs & less-techy folk (pretty sure that’s the technical term for it?)

Lately I’ve really enjoyed tinkering with:

• Blender
• Vue.js & Nuxt ♥
  • Pruvious
• Metalsmith, Eleventy, Vitepress, Astro ♥
• Edge functions & edge rendering
• Golang
• ESM build tools (Vite, Bun, ESBuild)

favourite learning resources:

Podcasts

• Shop Talk Show
• Developer tea
• Javascript Jabber
• The Web Ahead
• Front End Happy Hour
• CodePen Radio
• Friends Talk Frontend
• Changelog (all their podcasts #masterfeed)
  • JS Party
  • Go Time

News/article feeds

• CSS-Tricks (RIP 🕊️)
• Front-End Front
• Ron Valstar
• Tutorialzine (Mostly their monthly JS lib rundown)
• Markus Oberlehner (Really great Vue articles)
• Max Böch
• Hugo Giraudel
• David Walsh
• CSS Wizardry
• Sara Soueidan
• Code Kraft
• A List Apart
• Hacker News
• Jag Talon
• Too many Smashing Magazine, dev.to & Medium articles to count

history

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

I like fiddling small components and scripts on codepen, jsfiddle, gist and on my Arduino/Pi.
I started out creating websites for neighbours, family friends and small companies, which really sparked a passion. Here’s what I’ve been up to since:

Supersimple 🐧

Helping Supersimple simplify complex data exploration flows and aiding all roles of any SaaS company to have swift answers for their burning curiosity.

Zendesk QA

Klaus got acquired! 🙀 I helped ensure a smooth transition for the developer teams and make sure everyone got settled, but knew a company of that size would be too big a place for me.

Klaus 🐈‍⬛

Technical lead

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

Klaus is a SaaS product that lets customer support agents conduct conversation reviews. Besides the main app, I also wrote and managed 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

Front-end developer

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

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

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. From simple websites and company home pages, I’ve grown to enjoy experimenting with audiovisual experiences and a bit more artsy projects.