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About Gilles Romer

I grew up in Cologne in a Franco-German household, so both languages are native to me. Computers fascinated me from an early age. I taught myself to program and tinkered with anything I could get my hands on. That curiosity never went away.

Over the years I've worked across almost every corner of IT: networking, server infrastructure, databases, security, web development, data analysis and automation. Automation is what pulls me in most. If something is repetitive, I'd rather write something that handles it.

My time at Kayoom GmbH gave me a real feel for e-commerce. I was involved in everything: warehouse management, logistics, integrations, system interfaces. At HobbyGrow I'm continuing that work, migrating legacy systems and building the infrastructure on more solid ground.

I'm naturally someone who thinks things through completely. Every edge case, every dependency, before I commit to a solution. I do well in roles where technical depth meets strategic thinking.

My bachelor's thesis is the "Digital Kitchen", an open-source web app for self-hosted recipe management and meal planning built on Django. Recipes are treated as structured information objects with rich metadata, controlled vocabularies and a strong focus on retrieval quality.

Cybersecurity is something I'm increasingly drawn to, particularly offensive security, ethical hacking and cybercrime. After finishing my degree, that's where I want to go deeper.

Outside of work I ride motorcycles, play chess, cook and game. I'm also a proper audio enthusiast: headphones, speakers, sound engineering.

What sets me apart from a lot of people in IT is how I communicate. I translate technical concepts into plain language so that clients and colleagues always know exactly what's being done and why.

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