staff software engineer
I am a software engineer based in Zurich, Switzerland. I build data and AI/ML systems, user interfaces, and the cloud infrastructure that runs them.
I write about building software, understanding systems, and the lessons that survive the project.
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Binary search is one of the most important CS fundamental algorithms used to efficiently improve your programm runtimes. It's strong when we work with sorted contiguous data structures such as e. g. array or list. Here,…
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Background
My specialization is a Full-stack Web Development. I've built Frontends, Web Infrastructures, and Tooling.
I work at Google.
Before that, I worked at Microsoft (on Feed, the Microsoft Ignite Demo), Spotify (the Iron Bank tribe, premium subscription business area) and Booking.com.
Selected work
Collection of useful extensions for VSCode
Simple Docker setup for Node.js
Aggregator of programming-related YouTube channels
Historical pictures of Amsterdam, geocoded
Estimates how many problems you need solve each day in order to reach your interview preparation goal
Aggregator of League of Legends related YouTube channels
Just shows time in major tech hubs, useful for interviewers/interviewees
Often useful to encode/decode URL for APIs I'm working with
Often useful to encode/decode HTML entities for pages on this website
IRCd which is powering freenode.net (with slight modifications). I've been a core developer in 2008 during a massive project refactor aiming for scalability, security, and performance
Visual Studio Code Marketplace extensions developed by me
Atom Packages (I've been using Facebook's Nuclide IDE heavily back in 2015-2017)
Adds support for Styled Components to HyperNova React SSR Engine developed by AirBnB
From the archive
A keyboard which switches images on every key depending on a current user context before Apple came up with its Touchbar. Used and loved by many creators and people who worked in translations industry.
One of the most cool projects I've ever had a privilege to work on.
artlebedev.com/optimus/popularisA simple way of setting up your Node.js dev environment using Docker.
nodedock.io(I have a Kubernetes version coming soon, this website is using it)