about me

From an early age I have always been fascinated by computers and technology. My programming journey started with our first PC, an XP 286 running MS DOS, and a book I still have to this day, Supercharging MS DOS. I spent hours creating small programs with GUIs – extremely time consuming at the time. I like to tinker, so it was inevitable that I would at some point break the PC, by trying to add an 8-bit cartridge to it. Well, nothing a new motherboard could not fix.

Later at university, I started playing around with microcontrollers. Not the nice ones available today, those that still had to be programmed in assembly. It took me a week of late nights just to get a simple LED to flash! Today I have sensors measuring all kind of things for many different applications that can be at least quickly programmed in C++.

I am an Electrical Engineer by day focussing on control technologies and support in the mining industry. In my spare time I facilitate training on Energy Management Systems from time to time and develop software applications. Most of these activities includes measuring energy performance improvement, data analytics and data engineering. I enjoy integrating all the components into one symbiotic system. I like to have a practical application when learning something to get real benefits from my new skills.

In my spare time I enjoy reading, mostly non-fiction business and self-help books but I do enjoy the occasional fiction book. I like being in nature and visiting unfamiliar places. I find relaxation in drawing and photography and love to switch off by going mountain biking.

projects

I have listed some projects below that I have been or currently working on.

• Internet of Things
  • Built and integrated sensors and microcontrollers
  • Built data collection platform
  • Built IoT front-end app
• Data Science
  • General statistical analysis
  • Determining energy performance
  • Anomaly detection
• Data Engineering
  • Data pipelines from device-2-cloud
• Programming
  • Automation tools (local and cloud)
  • General apps to improve my day-to-day

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