About
TLDR: Coder since 1986. Builds infra & web apps since '99. Love working with AI.
I've build a career from computer curiosity. It started when I was very young with the Commodore 64; learned BASIC and wrote my first game in 1986. The Commodore broke at some point and it took a few years until I could buy and build my very own 486. In the 90s I learned how to build computers from components and learned about Linux. Many days were filled with installing operating systems, trying out everything, exploring the file system, breaking things and reinstalling again and again.
Late 90s I started to design websites. I wasn't very good at design but it still got me a job at a startup. The server and programming parts I found more interesting. After a few years, in the early 00s I left the startup (dotcom crash) and focussed on PHP. I wrote my own CMS and made numerous websites for my own clients. Around 2005 I started to work with WordPress. With WordPress my skills and career grew to creating larger websites with custom requirements and complex cloud hosting solutions for SMB and large enterprises. As my programming skills improved I got into web applications and building SaaS solutions, some of them taking multiple years to build.
Some clients in the financial and healthcare sectors required strict regulatory compliance. I very much enjoyed working with security officers and related professionals on those projects. I learned about high availability and failover systems, deeper security mitigations and how to implement and maintain secure email.
Nowadays I'm involved with a SaaS in healthcare, build the occasional small website for a client and work on a few of my own projects. Since a few years I've been using AI intensively, it has reinvigorated my pleasure in 'the grind', it has become a new flow-enabler and renewed my enjoyment in working on anything web related.
I'm open for all kinds of ideas and collaborations. For small websites I can work with fixed prices. For large projects, we will be a great fit if we both agree on the same definition of unknown complexity and the consequences of that concept for both parties.
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