Before writing a line of code, I studied how institutions actually work — the informal rules that hold together when nobody’s watching. Good training for what came next.
A decade of frontend before "AI-assisted" was a category — jQuery to component systems, performance and accessibility built in, not bolted on. The design instincts came from those same years.
A decade shipping production interfaces, then four pillars on top of it: AI systems, infrastructure, and the platforms clients actually run on day to day.
Self-hosted, on my own cloud, in Germany — the same principle clients get, right down to a Matrix homeserver instead of a US chat platform.
OpenTofu, Kubernetes, retrieval-augmented generation, provider-agnostic model routing — documented arc42-style so the next person knows why, not just what.
I translate instead of picking one discipline and ignoring the rest — design and engineering, the old stack and the new one, technical depth and the people who have to live with what gets built.
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