Three decades in the making.
From dial-up bulletin boards to local LLMs — the same conviction the whole way: a system you own behaves differently from one you rent.
1994
[EXP-001]The BBS era
First contact with networked machines: bulletin board systems over a screeching modem. The lesson that stuck — a network you run yourself behaves differently from one you rent.
1999
[EXP-002]First web work
Hand-written HTML, Perl CGI, servers in the closet. The web was small enough to understand end to end — a standard we never stopped holding software to.
2008
[EXP-003]The freelance decade
Full-stack work across industries: commerce, logistics, publishing. Ten years of other people's production incidents taught more than any certification.
2016
[EXP-004]Data protection, certified
GDPR on the horizon, certification as Datenschutzbeauftragter (Data Protection Officer). Privacy stopped being a compliance checkbox and became an engineering discipline.
2023
[EXP-005]The local-LLM pivot
First Llama weights running on our own hardware. The realization: serious AI no longer requires someone else's cloud — it requires engineering.
2025
[EXP-006]TrueLab AI founded
A studio in the Sila mountains, 980 meters above sea level. Everything learned since the BBS era, applied to one question: what does AI look like when you own the whole stack?