Hi,
I am a 28 year old man from The Netherlands.
I started my dev-path at development basic programming for Windows 3.1 as a 6 year ild kid. Moved to web development with PHP and vanilla JS 15 years ago as a teenager. And while I was studying for a Bachelor in Sports & Movement I transferred to Python to do complex tasks (Statistical Movement Analysis for top athletes for example).
Later on I started working for a data-minded and tech-driven online advertising company which allowed me to expand my Python skills and extend my frontend skills towards ReactJS and SASS.
Nowadays I am a Product Owner with a focus on User Experience, Brand building and Team Dynamics. There is not much room for coding in my day to day job but I love to code a bit from time to time. Especially if that helps the software engineers in the team.
I hope to enjoy some discussions here. I am more of a reader than a online debater, but you may see a comment with my name on it from time to time.
That is quite a path! I was lucky like you to have a computer as a child. I liked BASIC and Visual Basic. I would love to password protect a silly program and have people try to “hack” it. 😄
As a kid I started with a simple calculator for windows 3.1. I have always had a passion for the combination of backend operations combined with an easy-to-use frontend. Even as a kid, although I did not knew what it meant.
Later on I made small text-based games. When I switched to web development I made a platform for athletes to find their match results automatically (in The Netherlands there is/was no true centralized platform that offered all your personal results across multiple games). That attracted about 5k monthly active users. After which my lack of knowledge (as a teenager) of infrastructure and devops came to light. So I killed the platform and began to focus on small automations for me personally.
Hi,
I am a 28 year old man from The Netherlands.
I started my dev-path at development basic programming for Windows 3.1 as a 6 year ild kid. Moved to web development with PHP and vanilla JS 15 years ago as a teenager. And while I was studying for a Bachelor in Sports & Movement I transferred to Python to do complex tasks (Statistical Movement Analysis for top athletes for example).
Later on I started working for a data-minded and tech-driven online advertising company which allowed me to expand my Python skills and extend my frontend skills towards ReactJS and SASS.
Nowadays I am a Product Owner with a focus on User Experience, Brand building and Team Dynamics. There is not much room for coding in my day to day job but I love to code a bit from time to time. Especially if that helps the software engineers in the team.
I hope to enjoy some discussions here. I am more of a reader than a online debater, but you may see a comment with my name on it from time to time.
Enjoy!
That is quite a path! I was lucky like you to have a computer as a child. I liked BASIC and Visual Basic. I would love to password protect a silly program and have people try to “hack” it. 😄
What kinds of things did you build as a kid?
Thanks for your reply!
As a kid I started with a simple calculator for windows 3.1. I have always had a passion for the combination of backend operations combined with an easy-to-use frontend. Even as a kid, although I did not knew what it meant.
Later on I made small text-based games. When I switched to web development I made a platform for athletes to find their match results automatically (in The Netherlands there is/was no true centralized platform that offered all your personal results across multiple games). That attracted about 5k monthly active users. After which my lack of knowledge (as a teenager) of infrastructure and devops came to light. So I killed the platform and began to focus on small automations for me personally.
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