Who I Am
I started with FiveM scripts: game systems written in Lua and sold to whoever wanted them. I went self-employed during my Abitur and served over a hundred clients before winding it down. The UI work I took on near the end is how I ended up in web development at all.
Now it's Next.js and Python, and the job is bigger than the app. At Laria I've owned the platform, the architecture and every technical decision since day one, plus the deployments, the CI/CD and the internal tooling around it.
Frontend
- Next.js
- React
- TypeScript
Backend
- Python & FastAPI
- Node.js
- SQL (PostgreSQL, MariaDB)
What Sets Me Apart
- I size the blast radius before I ship
Stripe was the thing I was most worried about breaking, so it got in-depth Sentry instrumentation, months of reading logs by hand, and every failure path mapped before I trusted it. I'm doing the same thing on Kaufland's pipeline right now, deliberately, because the blast radius there is bigger.
- I build the company, not just the product
Nobody asks a full-stack developer to run internal communications. I set up Matrix, Tailscale, a self-hosted secret-sharing service and MauBot alerting anyway, because privacy matters to us and anything that improves how we work is mine to fix. The same instinct covers GPU drivers, GDPR and parts of finance.
- Self-taught on purpose, not by accident
I learn what I can actually use. Four years took me from FiveM scripts during my Abitur to designing an enterprise video pipeline, not because I was thrown in, but because I kept picking the thing I'd have to figure out.
Most people screening for this role never open the portfolio. There’s no degree on the CV, and that’s usually where it ends. You did. Thank you for that; I’d rather be judged on the work anyway.
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