About Me

Hi, I'm Krisjanis Ozolins. I'm a software engineer.

I'm a self-employed (mostly) software and web developer with a passion for creating functional and user-friendly websites and applications. Been curious and passionate about understanding tech and how things work all my life. With computers it all started as soon as I got my first computer at the age of 10. I immediately became fascinated with the endless possibilities that the technology offered, and I've been exploring them ever since.

Initially I started to explore the more DevOps-like (a.k.a. system/network-administration) type of things - learning all about hardware, networking, playing with and exploring operating systems, etc. I also tried programming at the age of 11, starting out with languages such as Visual Basic, Delphi, Lua, even Assembly. It was interesting, but scary at the same time, so I just used those tools for some scripts and experiments, but was afraid to take it further. I was fascinated about the freedom this knowledge brings. Later, I realized that I don't want to just routinely deal with fixing hardware and software (re)installation all the time, I want to dive much deeper and create it, that it's not really that scary, and so I started to learn web development more seriously a couple years later. Since then I've been working on various different projects, learning new technologies, and improving my skills non-stop, as much as my brain allows me to.

Professionally I started to work as a web developer more than 12 years ago, but my journey with coding started much earlier. I specialize in front-end and back-end development, but I can also handle DevOps. Nowadays I mostly tend to focus on JS based development (JS/TS, React, Node.js, React Native, Electron, etc.) as JS has come a long way to be a quite decent ecosystem of tools and libraries, although it requires some experience to filter out what's good and goes together, as the JS world can be very noisy and over-saturated. Besides that, I am also proficient in a variety of other programming languages and things, including PHP, Ruby, C# and Python, related libraries and frameworks, database management, system administration, etc. See more on that below.

Apart from being a web developer, I enjoy running and working out, music, practicing blues guitar, traveling (which I'd like to be doing more), minimalism, nature and all survival/bushcraft type things.

Check out my now page too, to see what I'm currently up to.