|
Hello, my name is Oskar Stål
(Oskar Stal in English) and constructing software
has been my passion since 1986. At this time I got my first
computer, it was a Commodore 64 and it completely changed me by transforming
me into a computer-nerd.
During my entire teens I was
stuck in my basement writing assembler code for the C64 while others where
out playing soccer and chasing skirts. I developed demos for the C64 and
lead the demo group named Light together
with a great friend.
I was determined to become one of
the best demo-programmers and we competed furiously against the other
talented computer nerds. I in the early nineties I reached
by goals and won the most prestigious demo competition in Denmark two
consecutive years.
After high school I went to study
computer science at the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm. At this
point I got tired of the C64 and focused on the software work needed for
collage. I mostly enjoyed the more theoretical classes around algorithms and
complexity theory. Programming classes was also fun, but I hated stuff like
electronics, mechanics and similar. I only cared about the software related
stuff. My first "real" job was in 1996
and I was hired to learn Java and become a Java developer. I worked for a
small, around ten people, web company and helped spicing up web-sites through Java-applets and database backends. This job was a lot of fun, when you are in the
flow of coding you just don't want the day to end. Since then I have gradually been
involved in constructing larger and larger software systems and today I'm
involved in building a pretty large Internet service. Consequently I
unfortunately got less and less time for actual coding and a few years back I
had to stop coding completely. Even though my job has included a
lot of organizational and process work the last
couple of years, I'm definitely mostly interested in the software aspect.
Constructing software technology is what I really love doing. Today my engineering focus is
mostly on high scalable Internet services. The biggest focus is on building
technology that enables rapid & simple product development while doing so
on many devices and for many users. I like the highly practical
element of high-scale software. Clever algorithms is very interesting, but
it's much cooler and more fun to focus on the practicalities of getting your
software to work for a really high volume of users. |
--- |
