When I was fourteen my mother bought a computer to do the accounting for her restaurant. It ended up that I “broke” the computer just after a few days. Luckily a school friend had more experience than me and showed me how to fix it and we freshly installed Windows 95 together. From then on, I knew that I cannot break it, and tried out even more things. I can’t say how many times I had to reinstall the OS, but it was many times.

These first experiences helped me to get an apprenticeship in a company in 1998. It was a small software development company, where I had a really good mentor, who taught me the 101 of software development. My very first project was a football manager tool, where you could entry the results of the matches and it created the league table. It was written in Pascal.