I am a self taught web developer with a background in graphic design. I started learning web development aside of my graphic design study in 2004. Ever since the time I started I am addicted to creating software architectural structures and solving problems that arise in realizing them.

My background in graphic design has proven usefull in web development. It seems that my knowledge on design and the tools that designers use give me an edge in creating estimates when translating wireframes into development time. Other then that the underlying concepts of graphic design (and especially typography) are closely related in the sense of structuring data in logical groups. Creating a layout structure for a book ain't that different from creating a structure for an application.

In my spare time I spend a lot of time on learning new technologies and documenting my experience and solutions for any solved problems to assist other developers. Since I learned the trade of web development largely from books, tutorials and trial and error I like to give back to the community what I gained from it. Also I'm working on keeping myself up to date with cutting edge technologies by reading and having pet projects.

At this moment I'm very involved with gettting my EmberJS, BackboneJS, NodeJS and MongoDB skills to a higher level since applications are becoming more and more full stack. Next to this I'm working on my CMS Atom End that is build with PHP using the Laravel 4 framework and used to power my private website.