I have been working in the IT industry for 25 years now, starting early during the first dot-com bubble in 1998. I have since then accumulated experience in coding serious, production software in over 25 languages (and probably twice this many through hobby projects) across a fairly large range of domains, from the real-time geolocation to electricity network management, retail, telecommunications and more. I've put together systems following the old client-server models and newer microservices architectures in the cloud, shaped and implemented data engineering and machine learning, built and looked after databases of all kinds and breeds, explored procedural, object-oriented, functional, logic, agent-based approaches.

Very early, I got the chance to start building and running teams, sometimes on-site, often off-shore and scattered across time zones as well as building companies, services, defining processes. I worked on company branding, knowledge management, adopted Agile in 2000 and DevOps in 2015. At one point, I founded and ran a magazine devoted to teach programming to people. I was lucky to get my own start when I was 6 and wanted to offer everyone the opportunity to discover this unique creative field.

But overall, I've always been putting my focus on people. People are what make software engineering unique, interesting and challenging.

The name for this website was inspired by the work of the Japanese photographer Sugimoto Hiroshi. For a large part of his career, he searched to reveal the inherent structure in things not by capturing as much as he could in pictures, but by removing the layers blurring our vision, covering the essence of them. Kandinsky and others had already demonstrated an approach in painting, abstracting the core dynamics and ideas from the confusing, non-essential aspects, but how could one do the same in photography?

Sugimoto showed that factoring the passing of time in instaneous captures was key to unlocking true understanding. Stare at something long enough, and you might start seeing it for what it truly is. This is what I am trying to achieve on this website: allow experience and time to blur away the superflous and focus on a genuine understanding of what we do.