I started programming early and never really stopped. In school I took computer science alongside the natural sciences, then studied Biotechnology at TU Berlin, treating them as one field rather than two. Through my Bachelor's and Master's I worked in lab automation and robotics research groups, applying software to lab problems. I make a living from it now, and I am nowhere near done.
Today I work as a Field Applications Scientist at Biosero, embedded on a customer site where a large automated system is being built out: nine workcells, five to thirty devices each. I translate chemical and biological workflows into automated methods, write the C# and Python tooling that keeps runs recoverable, and train the scientists who use the system after I leave.
I like problems that cross layers. A failing run might be a method issue, a driver issue, a network issue or a hardware issue, and I would rather find the root cause than route around it. That instinct carries over to what I build outside work: home infrastructure, embedded electronics, 3D-printed hardware and lighting and backend systems for events.