About me and my experiences

I am a deeply intrinsically motivated developer, driven by curiosity, system thinking, and a need to understand how things work at a structural level. My strongest work consistently emerges when I am given the freedom to build, explore, and refine ideas end-to-end, rather than operate prefabricated tools or follow narrowly predefined workflows.

Over the years, I have independently designed and implemented several niche but technically substantial projects, including Togstasjoner.no, a comprehensive accessibility-focused railway information platform running on a bespoke CMS; a custom-built chat platform developed from the ground up; and ongoing work on a general, lightweight, developer-friendly CMS prioritising clarity, flexibility, and long-term maintainability. These projects reflect a recurring pattern in my work: identifying systems that are overly complex, opaque, or restrictive, and rebuilding them in a way that is simpler, more predictable, and conceptually honest.

My passion lies less in frameworks or tools themselves, and more in the underlying structures—time systems, data models, workflows, and user interactions. A current example is my work with the International Fixed Calendar (IFC), where I revisited a years-old implementation originally spanning thousands of lines of code and re-implemented it in a few dozen lines once the governing rules were properly abstracted. This exemplifies both my growth as a developer and my long-standing habit of returning to ideas to refine them until the solution becomes elegant and self-evident.

Professionally, I have held responsibility over mission-critical web platforms for large organizations, including maintenance, content publication, inbound communication handling, and participation in new initiatives. While fully capable of working within constrained toolchains (such as site builders), my experience has made me acutely aware of how restrictive platforms can hinder both quality and professional growth. I thrive best in environments where expertise is trusted, reasoning is valued, and systems can evolve rather than be frozen in place.

Outside formal employment, I have consistently continued to build, research, and experiment on my own time—often late into the night—driven not by external reward, but by engagement with the problem itself. My projects tend to be niche and exploratory, not because of novelty-seeking, but because I am motivated by depth rather than breadth, and by internal coherence rather than mass appeal.

In short, I am a builder by nature:
I work best when allowed to reason, design, and construct complete systems;
I struggle in roles that reduce skilled work to tool operation;
and I bring the most value when curiosity, autonomy, and responsibility intersect.