Born in 1994 and raised in northern Germany (with a few brief detours to the easternmost and westernmost borders of the country), I now reside in the beautiful city of Bremen, while also spending quite a lot of time in Hamburg. Or in Heidelberg, should my 100% remote job require an in-person meeting.

After various stops along the way, I ended up with software development as my profession in 2014 and haven’t been able to let go of it since. Although people management and coaching take up an increasingly large part of my daily work, I still mainly identify as a software developer: Thinking a lot, building castles in the sky and ultimately creating something with a few lines of code that did not exist before.

The multilingual nature of this website

Make no mistake: I am from Germany, did not grow up multilingual and did not even speak English very well until my twenties. Nevertheless, a big part of my daily life happens in English: My development team communicates in English. Code is English. Most of the books I read are in English. Which means that my brain constantly thinks and dreams in two different languages.

For technical stuff, thinking, speaking and writing in English comes more naturally to me. Political debates in my head happen mostly in German.

So I will use whatever language I see fit for the content I will post on this page. Some important parts will be multilingual, in the sense that I will write both versions, including slight differences in meaning for curious readers to discover. Others will be translated by DeepL, which I will indicate accordingly. And some pages and posts will never be translated.