It started with a server and a curious 12-year-old.

I started coding when I was 12, writing scripts for online multiplayer servers. I was fascinated by the idea that a few lines of code could shape an experience shared by people around the world. Soon I was spending much of my free time coding, debugging, and learning how networks fit together.

That curiosity followed me through my teenage years. I tinkered with routers, experimented with networking, and put development boards through their paces; sometimes a little too enthusiastically. Not every experiment worked, but each one taught me something.

I went on to study at university in the Netherlands, turning that hands-on curiosity into a deeper understanding of software and engineering.

Today, I work as a software engineer on ADAS applications. Most of my work is backend development for scalable, distributed systems that process massive amounts of data. The problems are bigger now, but the motivation is much the same: understand how the pieces fit together and make them work reliably.