Joa Ebert

I wrote my first line of code at eight. Nobody asked me to. I was curious, and then I simply couldn't stop. That was of my life ago and I still haven't. I studied mathematics at sixteen, spent my evenings at eighteen building neural networks in C++, and then left university to sleep on a couch in Paris for a job at a startup. No regrets ✌️

Since then I have spoken at conferences on both sides of the Atlantic, co-founded products used by millions, grown engineering teams from the first hire, seen two companies through acquisition, and helped build the infrastructure broadcasters lean on when it is live and there is no second take.

A few design awards found me along the way. I mention them because correctness is only half the work — the other half is how a thing feels in your hands.

These days I am back where I started, at the edge of the Teutoburger Forest, teaching teenagers how to think algorithmically and what actually happens inside an AI model. The local startup scene gets whatever advice I have, free of charge.