About Me
By day, I am a Fullstack Engineer with over a decade of experience architecting scalable ecosystems and visualizing Big Data.
By night, I am the founder of Otter Tales Studio, where I channel my passion for narrative game development and 3D graphics.
Years ago, before the current AI boom, my journey started humbly—and perhaps a bit chaotically. I initially dove into Java not out of passion, but necessity: I had to pass a university exam. Yet, somewhere in that process, I got hooked.
I discovered the thrill of typing a few lines of code and watching the machine execute my will.
That spark led me to wonder: How do you create a universe?
This curiosity drove me through endless tutorials, experimenting with C++ in Unreal Engine 4 and C# in Unity. I later added Python to my arsenal, which I still use today for system scripting and custom Blender extensions.
Meanwhile my silent love for Ruby with Ruby on Rails, was back then a recipe for a quick deployment.
My first real assignment was unconventional. I was tasked with digitizing analog equipment for the "Tomatis" diagnostic method.
I was fascinated by how well it worked and the beautiful, LaTeX-formatted reports my application produced.
The Corporate Climb
My entry into the corporate world wasn't a straight line. I applied for a development internship at Dynatrace—and was rejected.
Two months later, my phone rang. It was Dynatrace. They asked, "Do you want to try your strength in Technical Support instead?"
I said yes. Experience is experience, and that role was eye-opening. Communicating with enterprise clients worldwide while I was still a student was a massive rush.
But eventually, a colleague from R&D asked the inevitable question: "Don't you miss coding?"
I did. Desperately. I passed the internal exams and joined a freshly assembled R&D team.
We started by building extensions for unmonitored technologies and eventually graduated to developing complex React applications.
The Leap to Freedom
After seven years of deep-dive diagnostics and corporate structuring, I realized I had hit a ceiling.
I craved more autonomy than a standard 9-to-5 could offer.
I swapped the safety of the corporate ladder for the adventure of my own business.
This allowed me to officially launch Otter Tales Studio, formalizing the computer graphics work I had been doing since 2019.
Today, I work as a contractor bridging the gap between complex backend logic and pixel-perfect React frontends, while my studio allows me to pursue my indie game dreams. Whether I’m optimizing high-volume data streams or rigging 3D models, I am driven by a love for clean code and things that work beautifully.