Who I am

Im Jeremy, father of two lovely boys, partner to an awesome wife, living in Flanders, loving pop music, cult movies, fantasy novels & road trips.

I work as a full-stack developer. But I didn't start out as one. I've been toying with computers since I was a kid. Growing up with a network engineer dad who worked in Linux, inspired me to dive in myself. After Windows bugged out on me one too many times, I switched to Ubuntu. I learned to do everything in Shell, like installing programs, writing files and shutting down my machine.

Later, while studying journalism in college, I became passionate about the web. Back then, CMS platforms were bare-bones, giving me the freedom to write raw HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. I started self-learning using resources like MDN. Eventually, I dove into Angular and Python, among other things.

I started working as a Digital Editor, adapting a newspaper's website and tablet editions. This led to a Webmaster role, which pulled me deeper into the content-frontend side, integrating APIs and working on high technical topics. I knew I wanted to do more. And I knew I wanted to write my own programs. I began a Bachelor of Applied Information Sciences in the evenings. But then life happened, COVID hit, I started a family, and I got a job as a Full-Stack Developer. I didn't finish the degree, but I did complete the courses in Java, OO-programming, Linux, Shell, Cloud, Infrastructure and Computer Sciences. Combining formal courses, a lot of self-learning, and a lot of passion, I became a software engineer.