What I’m up to These Days

I live in Cologne, Germany, with my wonderful wife. I am happy.

Last year I quit my job to establish myself as a freelance software engineer for non-goverment/non-profit organizations. This was huge for me, and so far it is going great. On the side, I am finishing another master’s degree in applied computer science at Fernuni Hagen (distance university).

I finished my first official 5K race! I am now running four times a week and training towards 12K—which is my running distance when three friends and I tackle the relay team marathon at Köln Marathon on October 6.

I want to get my Spanish level to B1/B2. I am learning a little every day.

I would like to do more creative (coding) work and get into the space of serious games and museum apps.

Interests

The list of my interests is composed of the top ten tags I use on this website. The score of each tag is a weighted sum where weights are based on the rank of the post it is used on (newest post gets rank 1) with a smoothing factor of 0.3.