Started by gained experience with Microsoft Visual Basic to interact with Microsoft Access database objects and create interactive applications to users. Later moved to administer LAMP servers where he learned to code dynamic database driven PHP-Mysql websites. During this period (2004-2008) was the webmaster of several sites running CMSs like Joomla and Wordpress as well as bulletin boards running Phpbb. 

In 2013 was introduced to python by Andy Bulka (website, linkedin) first on a one full day a week for 6 weeks basic python training. Two years later a second one day a week 6 weeks training on advanced python including object oriented programming. That training together with extentive hands on work at Australian Synchrotron MX beamlines but also with learnings from the genius coder Nathan Mudie changed his view of the world forever. Now felt no longer just a user but a driver on using software to control and manipulate hardware to collect better diffraction data as well as use software to improve on data analysis.

Non exhaustive list of projects involvement in coding

• Attenuator wheel to control X-ray beam transmission at different energies (involved using Lambert–Beer law as well as control hardware via python and EPICS)
• Migration of autoprocessing software to a Kubernetes based docker containers
• Re-write of the python collection server logic to accomodate the migration from the old CCD based ADSC detectors to a Pixel array Eiger detector
• Futher develop a python beamline library that kept abstraction at the application level from the beamline instrument where it ran
• Involved on the design of the slow replacement of the monolith Blu-ICE to a microservices based ecosystem. 
• Futher develop and maintain a QC based beamline setup GUI for delivering high quality beamline calibration to users. 
• Implement diffraction rastering for sample centring at the Australian Synchrotron MX beamlines