I started my first developer job as a paid intern in November 2023 and they hired me shortly after! I started there with creating my own full stack feature, a custom dashboard. This was my first back end experience. It was also my first time using .NET, C#, SQL, Angular and TS. Once I got hired, I got my own project, a WPF based POS system.
In October 2025 I accepted a new job opportunity at a different company. I'm mostly working full stack but I also took a dive into setting up E2E tests on our PR pipeline and a first move towards a Docker based approach. That project is broadening my skillset with some new knowledge regarding Azure, Azure DevOps, Terraform, Docker, Playwright and Infra in general. I've been actively involved with getting our company ISO certified and meeting a11y standards.
I've been a commercial pilot and aviation instructor during most of my working years. Now that I am not flying airplanes anymore I have decided to change into an equally fulfilling career. I feel passionate about tech and programming and am absolutely thrilled I found that new passion.
Next to my programming career, I am still running my own business(es) on the side. One is in type, design, print, and illustration and the other is aviation consultancy and teaching.
During my programming journey, I try to help out fellow learners as I can, either through Discord, or by contributing to open-source projects aimed at teaching. In June 2023 I became part of the maintainer team for The Odin Project and I am excited to be able to contribute to such an amazing resource alongside professionals and fellow contributors in the field.
I've learned my programming foundations through The Odin Project Curriculum which is aimed at full stack development and instilling the programmer mindset, honing problem-solving skills and mainly building things on your own, from scratch, utilizing the documentation and your own research.
Some of the TOP Projects I've worked on:
- Latest: A shopping cart React project built using Vite and React, testing with RTL and Vitest
- HeartStone themed memory game using Vite and React
- CV Builder app with React
- Weather App: Mainly to get a feel for working with API's and async code
- Binary Search Tree: I'm sharing this one instead of my Knights Travails for I feel like the BST exercise was the most elaborate of the Computer Science projects to figure out.
- BattleShip: A project that starts out with writing tests in Jest
intellectual challenges / learning new things, a good cup of coffee, being able to share knowledge, genuine social connections, finding a captivating game, a good sense of innocent but witty humor, maker tools (our house has a workplace for making all kinds of printed things), purposeful listening to music, exploring new things and locations, flowers.
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