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The short version of how I got here
I started building PCs when I was 11. That was the moment I noticed I had a technical affinity — not because anyone told me to, but because taking a machine apart and putting it back together better was the most interesting thing in the room.
Programming came from the same place, just pointed at software. I kept running into solutions that already existed and finding them boring, bloated, or clearly designed without the end user in mind. So I rebuilt them. Sometimes because the real thing was genuinely bad. Sometimes just because I was bored. Both are still valid reasons.
“The solution existed. It just wasn't good. So I made a better one.”
Today that instinct has turned into 60 shipped projects across two brands, most of them desktop apps built with Tauri, Rust and React — encryption tools, developer utilities, system managers, Discord infrastructure, game modding tooling. Almost all of them are fully offline, store nothing in a cloud, and ship without telemetry.
Outside of code I'm in my second year of an apprenticeship as a machine and plant operator (Maschinen- und Anlagenführer) in Germany. I'm fairly reserved until you know me well — and then not reserved at all. German is my mother tongue, English is fluent.
Hardware first
Started assembling PCs. First real proof that this was the direction — long before I wrote a line of code.
Software, out of frustration
Began rewriting tools I found badly built. Python and C# first, then everything else.
The Discord era
ZygnalBot and the Zoryx bot framework — my first large-scale projects. Both retired now, but they taught me how to structure something bigger than a script.
Native desktop, full time
The shift to Tauri, Rust and React. Security, privacy and developer tooling — offline by default, and the bulk of the 60.
zsync.eu & zlogic.eu
Everything finally under two proper roofs. Second year of my apprenticeship, still shipping on the side.