Manuel Penaloza

I grew up in Upper Austria in a small village on the landside. Already at an early age I was fascinated by what computers and the internet enable us to do. Though it wasn't that I've already started coding at an early age, it was more using those gadgets to manage social media, play games, or create graphics for music events I've organized. But yeah, luckily besides that, there was also enough time to go skateboarding and break some bones.

Time passed by, and through using software and the internet heavily in my late teens and early twenties, I more and more focused on creating and coding software/ web applications on my own. My former Marketing studies - which I finished in 2013 - complete my ability to build effective software. Either in terms of "understanding clients better" or to better understand the software's market fit, which helps enormously to define a development strategy and plan.

In the meantime, I've been writing code and creating business applications for over 10 years. In this way, I've gained experience with different technologies, different kinds of people, and several business cases. Exactly this amount and variation of knowledge are the absolutely lovely parts of building software that helps people and organizations grow and achieve goals. This fact is the primary driver that keeps me going to get better, and thus leave my dent in the universe.