You won't read yet another 'passionate', 'detail-oriented' bullshit bio. I promise.

I moved into tech after graduation and worked as a computational linguist. Building chatbots for a living gave me my first real taste of software development and coding practices.

As the company's projects expanded, I lost touch with how my work affected real users. The parts I loved like writing scripts to sanitise datasets, or writing test cases to make a better product, got replaced by scattered, sloppy tasks.

The turning point came when I came across Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit. The concept of emancipation through work clicked into place, like a missing piece of a puzzle: work done meaningfully and masterfully from start to finish with nothing left unexamined. That's what I'd lost: the chance to craft something end to end.

Web development is exactly that: end-to-end ownership. I enjoy planning a new product from the first idea to launch. What I don't enjoy is nudging a metric here or there and never getting to see the finished artifact.

For more than a year now, I haven't skipped a day of studying and programming. I always have a project in the works not because I have to, but because it's part of me. I'm still learning and today's no exception.