...this page is about me 😀
You can read a bit about some things that are important to me below or you could go and check my GitHub- or GitLab-Account or download my CV
The red thread through my academic life has been learning: Teaching Math to pre-school children during High-school, studying Neuroscience during my bachelor, ML & robotics during my master (my thesis ) summarizing non-fiction books for blinkist in parallel. I am awed by the brain and I like to challenge assumptions of what people can learn at what age. I believe I can explain everything to everyone (-> just got to start at the right entry point). I also like to think of myself as really good in charades :)
Some big inspirations for me are
Some big inspirations for me are
- Salman Khan (especially this talk)
- Sugata Mitra's hole in the wall project)
- my former colleague and friend Jared Pereira and
- WaitbutWhy (everything can be explained!)
In 2017, I came across Ethereum and since am a firm believer that the world needs technology that is not owned by anyone. So I put my first love (learning) to the side and dove into different web3-projects (the solidty-compiler, fathom & airswap at Consensys), neufund.org) and most recently tried to use blockchains to super-charge the informal credit landscape in India as a co-founder of arboreum.dev. In the end, that didn't quite work out, yet I learned a lot and am proud of the change we made.
I like optimizing my setup & editors (recently fell in love with the Github Co-Pilot), readable testable elegant code, paircoding dynamics, small PRs that are fun to review, good issue descriptions, tag-team-debugging, hands-dirty down to the root of the problem! And, very importantly: Tests tests tests and then more tests.
Everyone being a novice at one thing and an expert at a different one is what makes being part of a dev-team so much fun to me. I enjoy sharing what I know and learning new things to equal parts and I think it's part of what I love best about being a developer.
To that end: I care about (in no particular order):
Smooth async workflow, showing appreciation for work well done, direct and open communication about problems, honesty, retros, productive meetings: being on time (very german here), agenda-setting, ability to focus and sticking to a scope.
Last but not least: Understanding problems is fun and solving them elegantly more so (philosophically speaking, life is a series of problems :). I like sharing the learnings that come with approaching and navigating challenges. With a well-planned approach and some thoughtfulness, every attempt at solving a problem results in something being learned, either by someone individually or together as a team.
And in the end, you always find the bug!
To that end: I care about (in no particular order):
Smooth async workflow, showing appreciation for work well done, direct and open communication about problems, honesty, retros, productive meetings: being on time (very german here), agenda-setting, ability to focus and sticking to a scope.
Last but not least: Understanding problems is fun and solving them elegantly more so (philosophically speaking, life is a series of problems :). I like sharing the learnings that come with approaching and navigating challenges. With a well-planned approach and some thoughtfulness, every attempt at solving a problem results in something being learned, either by someone individually or together as a team.
And in the end, you always find the bug!
I love books (browse my favorites), I play high-level ultimate for my hometown Berlin Wall City . I often listen to techno & deep house when I code and I recently got into playing Go, which is awesome!