Built by someone who taught himself everything.

I wanted to be a doctor. I spent hours in a hospital as a high school student, and technology was already pulling at me the whole time, teaching myself Python badly in whatever time I had left. Medical school didn't work out, so I started a science degree instead. One semester in, I discovered the Unity game engine, and that was the moment programming stopped being a backup plan and became the only plan.

I didn't stay with Unity for long. Using someone else's engine felt like watching somebody else make the game. I wanted to understand what was actually happening underneath, so I taught myself Java, C#, C++, and eventually Rust, on my own, outside of any classroom.

I did go back to formal study, a degree in IT, and did well at it. Distinctions across the board, exams finished in a fraction of the time everyone else needed. But the next year's tuition cost more than my father earned in a month, and that was the end of that path. I tried one more degree after that, and stepped away from formal education for good not long after.

What followed was six years of teaching myself everything else: systems programming, game engines, mobile development, full web development, front to back. AI-powered platforms built in Laravel. Authentication systems written from scratch in Go. If it could be built with code, I wanted to know how.