About me

You've probably already read the short intro on the home page.

I've always had a fascination for computers, and even as a kid I loved tinkering with software, trying to get a game to run on an old DOS system or something like that. As a DOS kid, I learned how to use a command line very early on, and nowadays I still practically live in the terminal.

After school I actually went and studied physics though, with the goal of becoming an astrophysicist. The astrophysics department at my university was a mostly theoretical one, and the work group I joined did numerical astrophysics. So when writing my two theses I learned a lot about numerical physics, and... well, programming. These types of programs are hardcore number crunchers written in Fortran, C, or C++, with a bit of python for visualisation and data processing. I actually spent most of my programming time on a program written in C.

This is how I started really getting into programming, working in a team, solving hard problems... and eventually I figured out that the programming was way more fun than the physics so I decided I want to really dig into that and become an actual software developer. After a couple of years as a grad student I became the IT admin for the astrophysics department for two years, and then in May 2024 I landed my first full-time position as a software "engineer" at anacision GmbH.

Only a couple months later we got the news that our team would become its own company, now called Pailot GmbH, where I work on software that optimises process chain schedules for factories!

Probably because I did my first serious programming projects in Fortran and C, nowadays I absolutely love languages like these, as well as Zig, Rust, and C++. I love having more fine-grained control over hardware, digging into the nitty gritty to squeeze out every last drop of performance. This is also probably why "Hacker's Delight" is my favourite programming book!

I try to also code a lot in my free-time. I love that feeling when a program slowly comes together and starts doing its job piece-by-piece. I dabbled in doing frontend too, but CLI tools, number crunching, and backend development is where it's at for me.

I may have had an unusual journey to where I am now, but day after day I'm more and more happy that I took that plunge. It's not just the act of programming, it's also the communities, the culture. It feels like I really found "my people", haha!