I was born in Frankfort, a small town in the Free State, and spent my early years at my mother's aunt's homestead there before we moved to Ennerdale, in Johannesburg South, when I was three.

That's where technology got hold of me. PC gaming, mostly — Doom, MAME32, Half-Life, The Sims — and somewhere in there I came across programming and thought it was magic. Naturally I wanted to understand the magic, so I enrolled at IIE Rosebank College and graduated with a Diploma in IT in Software Development at 72%.

From there I joined the Software Academy internship at Tshimologong Digital Precinct, sponsored by Samsung, and then moved into frontend work at Munch — where I've spent the last two years on a platform that restaurants actually run their business on. Shipping to people whose revenue depends on your code being right teaches you a particular kind of care.

I'm still doing this for the same reason I started: I like building things, and I like passing on what I learn to whoever follows the same path.