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Over time, this website should form as an artefact of my intertwined personal, professional and creative selves. Ideally, the result is interesting content the fellow web traveller. But please note, this site is as much for me, as it is for you.

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tjex : tillman jex

I've done many things, but now I code. The scenic route was taken, so to say.

I'm working in Berlin as a full stack developer at Siemens Energy on a greenfield project to automate, digitise and optimise the on site testing of critical grid infrastructure technologies. On the off days, I'm writing my masters thesis on the intersection between the Zettelkasten system, creative ideation and software tooling. On the off-off days I indulge in some yak shaving, primarily over at zk-org.

What lead me to programming is what lead me through all else, a never-ending joy in learning and understanding how things work. Before finding a home in programming, I was working in the arts / music industry as a producer of story music, film composer, and sound engineer. I was also the head engineer and studio manager of MONOM, a state-of-the-art spatial audio studio in Berlin, which saw my two loves of music and technology come together and insighted me to investigate further by means of the above mentioned masters degree.

For about ten years I worked on the side of other pursuits as a qualified remedial massage therapist. Massage, like music, has lead me around the world, the highlight being massaging and living on yachts in the Aegean sea.