// portfolio & dev timeline
Hi, I'm Roland.
Systems Development Engineer @ AWS ☁️. Inquisitive by nature, I keep peeling back the layers — there's always one more underneath. I embrace AI but seek to understand how things work at their core. Believer in open source, accessible learning, and sustainable software models. Below is a timeline of my dev life — milestones, articles, and projects.
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Milestones, articles, and key life events
Same site, three years later: a full modernization (with an AI pair programmer)
Svelte 5, Tailwind 4, markdown macros, tests, Storybook, CI — and how an AI agent helped rebuild it all in one session.
Moved 🇮🇪 → 🇺🇸
Moved from Ireland to the USA
Adopted my son Milo 🐶
Got my (first) house
Today on "How it is made"... this website?
Process and design decisions behind this very website.
Croatia third place in World Cup ⚽🥉
Promoted to SysDE II @ AWS ☁️
Full time @ AWS (SysDE I) ☁️
Finished College
Griffith College 🇮🇪
Internship @ Amazon Web Services ☁️
Croatia second place in World Cup ⚽🥈
Moved 🇭🇷 → 🇮🇪
Finished high school
Gimnazija Pula 🇭🇷
Finished primary school
O.Š. Vidikovac Pula 🇭🇷
Existential crisis
At age 10, realized we are all just confused animals on a floating rock. At least we have Wi-Fi.
Croatia third place in World Cup ⚽🥉
Born
More to come
Shipping ideas day by day.