For 13 years I have worked in production at a steel-tube manufacturer. Not in an office — on the floor, with the machines, the night shifts, the handovers at 6 a.m.

A few years ago I started building software in my free time. Not tutorials for their own sake — tools that solve problems I actually see every day.

Why a factory worker writes code

In production you learn one thing fast: it does not matter what looks good on a slide. It matters what works at shift handover. That perspective turned out to be my biggest advantage as a self-taught developer — I know the problem before I write the first line.

What I have built