William Comploi, developer in Austria

I'm William Comploi, born 1998. I went the trade route through Austrian school and trained as a mechanical technician. Then four years as a field technician covering Central and Eastern Europe, commissioning automation lines — for small workshops, for global corporations, for the car industry.

In that job one question decides everything: does it run. A line that stands still burns money by the hour, and the person operating it wasn't there when it was built. That stayed with me. So I don't announce things that aren't finished, and I don't put anything in the copy that the first click can't find.

Programming started on the side. Two projects came out of it, both live. I build around a full-time job, three or four hours a day, which limits how much I start, not how finished it gets. Whether a third one follows depends on these two standing on their own.