A 20+ year journey of making things easier, faster, and more fun
Where it all started
Built my first PC at age 10 with a colleague of my father. The excitement of putting together hardware and watching it come to life. That feeling never left.
Two years later, I set up my first forum for a Ragnarok Online guild. Age 13, running my own community server.
First taste of creating something from nothing. First realization that I could build things other people would actually use.
Learning to bend things to my will
Started modifying MyBB plugins. Making the forum do what we actually needed, not just what it came with.
Adjusting designs, customizing functionality. Small automation tasks here and there.
Age 18: Built my first game bots. MMOs, mobile games, anything repetitive.
"If I'm doing this more than twice, a machine should do it."
Making things easier, faster, and sometimes just funny
Building automation was always my core passion. Since age 18, I've built 50+ bots and bot systems. A few examples:
Follow/unfollow cycling in a niche to show up in notifications. Auto-posted content linking to ad-monetized websites.
Learned: API rate limits, multi-account coordination
10 Android emulators running simultaneously. ~250 accounts per day, each maxing out ad rewards. Funneled premium currency through marketplace to main account.
Learned: Parallel process management, account rotation
Constantly scanned for mispriced items. Bought dips in resource prices, relisted for profit.
Top 1% wealthiest player on the server
Learned: Market analysis algorithms, timing optimization
"I just love building stuff that makes sense (or is funny)."
Finding out what I'm NOT
RWTH Aachen, Computer Science. One of Germany's top technical universities.
Aced every programming exam. Absorbed everything in sight. This was clearly my thing.
Math, physics, BWL (business administration)? Never clicked. Not my thing.
University wasn't the right path. But I knew exactly what I loved.
A side project opens the door
My best friend and I built up and led a League of Legends clan. We wanted something unique for our community.
Built a Mafia Wars-style browser game for our members. Just for fun, to give us something to play together between matches.
"We're looking for programming apprentices."
Sometimes the projects you build for fun open the doors that matter most.
The right path. And discovering Rails.
IT Specialist for Application Development at nedeco. Finally: focused on what I actually loved. No math exams required.
Then I discovered Ruby on Rails.
The speed. The ease of use. The way everything just clicked together. Suddenly everything was possible. Ideas that would have taken weeks in other frameworks could be built in days.
It was love at first sight.
First real Rails job at evopark (2017). Rails became the foundation for everything that followed:
RLTracker, Splex.gg, Golem Overlord, SparkChambers. All Rails.
10+ years later, it's still the tool I reach for when I want to build something real.
From side project to 2.4M trades
Built entirely from scratch as Solo Founder. Rocket League trading platform with scam prevention.
Ran for 4 years, then sold.
My first Rails production environment
My first real job as a Ruby on Rails developer. What was theory during the apprenticeship became practice here.
Parking management system. APIs, payment systems, real-time data processing. Everything a startup needs.
This is where I learned how Rails works in the real world. Production systems, teamwork, code reviews.
Python, JavaScript, PHP - my polyglot chapter
Full Stack Developer at a fintech startup. Social media sentiment analysis for stock markets.
Python for machine learning, JavaScript for frontend, PHP for legacy systems. My polyglot chapter.
Data is everything. And how to extract real insights from social media signals.
Back to Java - enterprise stability
Senior Backend Developer. Back to Java after years with Ruby and Python.
API development for event management. Enterprise architectures that require stability.
Sometimes you need the rigor of statically typed languages. And sometimes you miss Rails.
Same philosophy, bigger scale
of all Splinterlands rentals at peak
in value managed daily at peak
164 database models, 209 migrations, 174 Sidekiq workers
Blockchain idle game on Hive
daily players at peak
Discord members
Full token systems (PART/SHARD), NFTs, on-chain verification
The automation instinct meets LLMs
Senior Rails Backend Developer at Linkster GmbH
Not just using AI. Building the infrastructure:
Description
The same drive that built game bots at 18 now builds production AI systems.
AI-powered affiliate content at scale
What started as an experiment became a fully automated content pipeline. Building a bilingual blog system that writes, optimizes, and publishes itself.
Rails 8, Claude API, DataForSEO, Sidekiq, custom scheduling
"If it can be automated, it should be. This is that philosophy applied to content."
Why I do what I do
Building software isn't just my work. It's my passion and my hobby.
Can't imagine doing anything else that fits me and motivates me more. The line between "work projects" and "personal projects" barely exists. It's all building things that solve problems or are fun to create.
From MyBB plugin tweaks to blockchain games to AI pipelines. Same drive:
Make things easier, faster, and take away the repetitive stuff.
"Building automation was always my passion. Making things easier, faster, and taking away stuff from my plate that was repetitive. I just love building stuff that makes sense (or is funny)."
Where it all started
Built my first PC at age 10 with a colleague of my father. The excitement of putting together hardware and watching it come to life. That feeling never left.
Two years later, I set up my first forum for a Ragnarok Online guild. Age 13, running my own community server.
First taste of creating something from nothing. First realization that I could build things other people would actually use.
Learning to bend things to my will
Started modifying MyBB plugins. Making the forum do what we actually needed, not just what it came with.
Adjusting designs, customizing functionality. Small automation tasks here and there.
Age 18: Built my first game bots. MMOs, mobile games, anything repetitive.
"If I'm doing this more than twice, a machine should do it."
Making things easier, faster, and sometimes just funny
Building automation was always my core passion. Since age 18, I've built 50+ bots and bot systems. A few examples:
Follow/unfollow cycling in a niche to show up in notifications. Auto-posted content linking to ad-monetized websites.
Learned: API rate limits, multi-account coordination
10 Android emulators running simultaneously. ~250 accounts per day, each maxing out ad rewards. Funneled premium currency through marketplace to main account.
Learned: Parallel process management, account rotation
Constantly scanned for mispriced items. Bought dips in resource prices, relisted for profit.
Top 1% wealthiest player on the server
Learned: Market analysis algorithms, timing optimization
"I just love building stuff that makes sense (or is funny)."
Finding out what I'm NOT
RWTH Aachen, Computer Science. One of Germany's top technical universities.
Aced every programming exam. Absorbed everything in sight. This was clearly my thing.
Math, physics, BWL (business administration)? Never clicked. Not my thing.
University wasn't the right path. But I knew exactly what I loved.
A side project opens the door
My best friend and I built up and led a League of Legends clan. We wanted something unique for our community.
Built a Mafia Wars-style browser game for our members. Just for fun, to give us something to play together between matches.
"We're looking for programming apprentices."
Sometimes the projects you build for fun open the doors that matter most.
The right path. And discovering Rails.
IT Specialist for Application Development at nedeco. Finally: focused on what I actually loved. No math exams required.
Then I discovered Ruby on Rails.
The speed. The ease of use. The way everything just clicked together. Suddenly everything was possible. Ideas that would have taken weeks in other frameworks could be built in days.
It was love at first sight.
First real Rails job at evopark (2017). Rails became the foundation for everything that followed:
RLTracker, Splex.gg, Golem Overlord, SparkChambers. All Rails.
10+ years later, it's still the tool I reach for when I want to build something real.
From side project to 2.4M trades
Built entirely from scratch as Solo Founder. Rocket League trading platform with scam prevention.
Ran for 4 years, then sold.
My first Rails production environment
My first real job as a Ruby on Rails developer. What was theory during the apprenticeship became practice here.
Parking management system. APIs, payment systems, real-time data processing. Everything a startup needs.
This is where I learned how Rails works in the real world. Production systems, teamwork, code reviews.
Python, JavaScript, PHP - my polyglot chapter
Full Stack Developer at a fintech startup. Social media sentiment analysis for stock markets.
Python for machine learning, JavaScript for frontend, PHP for legacy systems. My polyglot chapter.
Data is everything. And how to extract real insights from social media signals.
Back to Java - enterprise stability
Senior Backend Developer. Back to Java after years with Ruby and Python.
API development for event management. Enterprise architectures that require stability.
Sometimes you need the rigor of statically typed languages. And sometimes you miss Rails.
Same philosophy, bigger scale
164 database models, 209 migrations, 174 Sidekiq workers
Blockchain idle game on Hive
Full token systems (PART/SHARD), NFTs, on-chain verification
The automation instinct meets LLMs
Senior Rails Backend Developer at Linkster GmbH
Not just using AI. Building the infrastructure:
Description
The same drive that built game bots at 18 now builds production AI systems.
AI-powered affiliate content at scale
What started as an experiment became a fully automated content pipeline. Building a bilingual blog system that writes, optimizes, and publishes itself.
Rails 8, Claude API, DataForSEO, Sidekiq, custom scheduling
"If it can be automated, it should be. This is that philosophy applied to content."
Why I do what I do
Building software isn't just my work. It's my passion and my hobby.
Can't imagine doing anything else that fits me and motivates me more. The line between "work projects" and "personal projects" barely exists. It's all building things that solve problems or are fun to create.
From MyBB plugin tweaks to blockchain games to AI pipelines. Same drive:
Make things easier, faster, and take away the repetitive stuff.
"Building automation was always my passion. Making things easier, faster, and taking away stuff from my plate that was repetitive. I just love building stuff that makes sense (or is funny)."
Yixn.io
ES Futures Bot
Hester NG
SparkChambers
Kofferly
Anti-Baby-Shower
SipQuest
PintRush
Linkster.co
Golem Overlord
Splex.gg
ProPhy
RLTracker