Born and raised in Saxony-Anhalt.
About me
You are hiring a person, not a faceless agency.
I am a German-born American web developer based in Bay City, Michigan. I have been building websites professionally for more than a decade, and I still like knowing exactly who I am building them for.
Germany to Michigan
A long way from Saxony-Anhalt to Bay City.
I was born and raised in Germany and studied Applied Computer Science at Hochschule Merseburg. My professional web career started there before life eventually brought me to Michigan.
Bay City is home now. I am an American citizen, married, and a dad of two. That is part of why I like straightforward work relationships: clear expectations, sensible solutions, and fewer unnecessary headaches for everybody involved.
I have worked on everything from small local websites to large WordPress systems, custom plugins, content workflows, maps, APIs, databases, and deployment infrastructure. The small sites still matter just as much because they are often the entire public face of somebody's business.
Serving the Great Lakes Bay Region and remote clients.
A useful reminder that websites should not create extra chaos.
Hochschule Merseburg, Germany.
How I work
Practical beats impressive-for-five-minutes.
I care about design, but I care just as much about what happens six months later. Can the site be updated? Is it fast? Is the structure understandable? Does the form still work? Can somebody find the phone number without fighting an animation?
I would rather recommend five useful pages than sell fifteen pages nobody needs. If the project becomes technically complicated, I am comfortable going deep. If it does not need to be complicated, I am equally happy leaving it simple.
Web tinkering
Self-hosting, servers, automation, and side projects tend to follow me home.
Music
Guitar, production, and a suspicious amount of metal.
Game development
I also build games with a friend through Articus Studios.
Enough about me
What are you trying to build?
Tell me what the business needs and I will tell you what I would recommend.