My love of programming started at the tender age of 11. I was (and still am!) passionate about art. One afternoon, I found installation discs for Visual Studio 6.0 in my father's drawer—expecting a fancy new drawing software, I installed the program. After a short-lived initial disappointment, I was hooked! I was instantly fascinated by this new creative process: programming. Since then I gained well over a decade of experience designing and implementing enterprise-grade, high performance multi-platform network code and distributed systems, including B2C apps. I'm technology agnostic and I worked with numerous technologies over the years spanning low-level languages, high-level languages, relational, non-relational and semantic databases. My mantra is to design testable, fault tolerant and easy to maintain code-bases while avoiding vendor lock-in as much as possible.