My name is Josef, I love making clean, elegant and intuitive user interfaces and APIs with minimal friction, and finding elegant solutions for intricate game mechanics / interactions logic.

I have eleven years of experience developing and shipping educational apps / mini-games for learning math, first in AS3 flash/AIR and eventually in JS for the Web. → apps.defimath.ca (registration is free)

The funny thing is that these apps are not my concepts – I'm no math guy at all! (though I'm pretty good at logic) – but I realized that I can find solution to almost anything, given the time and a persistant focus – which I found out is also true in general and not just for programming… As a freelancer, I had all the time I wanted to figure stuff out, and this was a benediction; I learned by doing. I iterate again and again, until I end up with a working solution, and beautiful and balanced visuals. I'm not the low-level programming guy that always finds the absolute best pattern or algorithm to use; I often just jump in with little or no plan, I try stuff and make it work, damn it! I'm rather the very high-level concepts guy, you know, a creative… 😎

I'm currently working on my pet project: Vision Stage – A web component / Web app library using lit-html templates and reactive properties.

You can reach me at: [email protected]