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Frontend
Production React/TypeScript apps from scratch — design systems, data viz and end-to-end tests included.
- React
- TypeScript
- Redux
- GraphQL
- D3
- Cypress
The origin
It started on a 386.
It started with a 386. My dad brought one home running DOS, and I learned just enough commands to go spelunking through the filesystem — asking him a thousand questions about what lived in each folder and why. Prince of Persia probably ate more hours than it should have.
My dad taught me the basics of C, too — and from there I was on my own. With no internet and no books to crib from, I spent whole afternoons failing my way through a Pac-Man clone and a homemade screen saver: not enough to get the game loop right, but more than enough stubbornness to keep trying. That loop of fail-and-retry is still how I learn anything.
At university I set out to become a "proper engineer" and chose electrical engineering — but the pull toward code never let go. I became a teaching assistant for the C++ modules (yes, we wrote code by hand, on paper, in the final exams) and fell hard for the low-level stuff: PIC and Atmel microcontrollers, and the strange satisfaction of writing assembly.
That hardware instinct never switched off. A drawer of Arduino kits waits for a weekend that work and life keep postponing — but a couple of Raspberry Pis quietly automate the small annoyances out of my days, because making life a little easier is its own reward.
Same curiosity as the kid at the DOS prompt; just better tooling.