The Digital Career Institute (DCI) is a school in Germany that offers bootcamps for adults and career changers looking to enter the tech industry. I worked there for four years, both as a freelancer and later as a full-time employee, teaching seven remote cohorts of learners starting their journey into web development.
As a teacher, I focused on empathy, clarity, and inclusivity, aiming to create a supportive learning environment where students with little or no prior experience could build confidence and a strong foundation in programming.
In my final two years at DCI, I also took on the role of curriculum coordinator. I rewrote the entire JavaScript curriculum from scratch, creating a whole new set of exercises and significantly improving the accompanying teaching materials.
Photocircle is a Berlin-based art platform that sells photographs and artwork to fund social projects. While it originally supported initiatives around the world, since 2021 it has focused on planting trees for each artwork sold.
From a technical perspective, it's a large-scale e-commerce platform that we built from scratch. It's a project especially close to my heart, as I’ve been part of the team since its inception and have worked on it for over ten years. I’ve contributed to several redesigns of the website and led the implementation of its mobile version.
More broadly, working on Photocircle has given me the opportunity to design and implement a wide range of features: integrating payment systems and multiple payment APIs, automating workflows with third-party services like shops and photo producers, and navigating the ongoing challenges of maintaining a large and complex production system. Overall, the project has played a big role in my growth as a developer.
The Independent Photographer is an international platform and competition for emerging and established photographers. My work there focused primarily on the front end, improving the look and feel, enhancing the usability of key sections, building a more feature-rich upload process, and working on a Facebook integration.
Klimaticket is a project that encourages air travelers to take responsibility for the environmental impact of flying. I developed a widget that calculates a voluntary climate contribution based on flight distance, allowing users to estimate their emissions and donate accordingly. The contributions go toward supporting the construction of a solar power plant in Switzerland.
ERCcOMICS was an EU-funded science communication initiative supported by the European Research Council (ERC). Its goal was to make complex research projects engaging, fun, and accessible to a wider audience through experimental, interactive, and immersive webcomics.
The project ran for four years, and as the sole developer, I was responsible for creating the entire publishing platform. I collaborated closely with a remote, international team of researchers, artists, and project coordinators to implement the interactions and animations that brought each story to life on the web.
To Be Continued is a highly experimental and interactive webcomic about a group of teenagers who, among other things, happen to have superpowers.
What makes it stand out, especially for when it was first conceived and built, is that it tells a long-form story across three seasons and over 100 chapters, with each chapter designed differently. Every chapter explores a unique way of presenting and navigating the story, inviting the reader to engage with it in a new way each time. It’s the project that started my career as a webcomic developer and pushed me to explore more creative possibilities on the web. It remains one of the most ambitious and personal projects I’ve worked on. It remains one of the most ambitious and personal projects I’ve worked on.
To this day, I still brag about the mention it got in a post on Scott McCloud’s blog — mostly to the two or three friends who actually know who he is.