I have been developing games ever since I was 14. At the start, it was just simple 2d games in PyGame after I found a bigger interest in game dev amidst other applications of Python.

Later on, I switched to Unity for making more complex games, most of which were 3d open-world / adventure indie titles. For over 4 years, I worked on making feature rich Android games.

While I did experiment with other game engines such as Godot, Unreal and LÖVE, I never completely switched from Unity. Additionally, I learnt c++ by making simple games heavily utilizing OOP and pointers with SFML.

At some point, I did also work a lot with Bevy and Rust because I want to have more control over the whole process.

The First Website I developed was purely made in HTML and CSS. After I started to contribute in open-source projects found on GitHub, I progressively switched to making static sites using Jekyll. I heavily made use of the Liquid templating engine alongside with configuration files and templates I defined to build websites.

Fast-forward some years, I started to invest a lot of time into learning React, at the time when Hooks started to become a powerful and reliable solution, to build more efficient, secure and fast PWAs. This was also the time when I became a better JS/ES6+ developer. More than satisfied with the switch, I migrated most of my sites to use React. My CSS library of choice was (and still is) Tailwind with a mobile-first strategy. Due to working with npm, I also gained a lot of experience with other JS frameworks such as Axios and Redux. I did experiment quite a bit with NextJS, Gatsby and Svelte as well. Some of my projects also make use of pagination and Websockets using Socket.io.

After focussing a lot on the front-end for my websites, I decided it was high time for my web apps to be more interactive and useful. I needed ways to persistently store data and tinker with implementing more complex features such as login forms. As I already had a dedicated server that I was renting from OVH and I was using JavaScript a lot in my React apps, I started learning and building backends using frameworks and tools such as Node, Express and Mongoose. Of course, my database of choice has been MongoDB since then.

Later on, I started to show a big interest in Deno coupled with third party modules such as oak. I also have a lot of experience in using Redis and FastifyJS by making some pretty big projects (such as a whole social media platform).

Ditching Windows for Linux was probably one of the best decisions I ever made in my life. Since then, I've been automating my workflow by writing hundreds of bash scripts. I like to customize my terminal a lot and I'm a regular distro-hopper. I've also worked on making my own distro from scratch.

After landing my first System Admin job, I've been deploying and configuring VMs, diagnosing/troubleshooting issues on servers and making sure services were running properly. I've had to work a lot on the Google Cloud Platform. Often times, I had to execute commands to import, backup and modify MySQL databases. I have a lot of experience working with Nginx, Apache and Traefik as well. As my expertise grew, I've had exposure to other cloud providers such as OVH, Magento Cloud, DigitalOcean, AWS, Linode, Flexible Engine and many others.

Finding that my progressive web apps weren't enough to provide the experience I wanted for end users, I started dedicating time in learning React Native for making mobile apps because it had a lot in common with React, a technology that I was already very familiar with.

I did try out Flutter as well but I was simply not fond of the syntax I had to follow for creating components/widgets.

Sometimes I make use of Cordova as well for saving time in making mobile apps. Electron is my choice for making desktop ones.