Sander Elias,

Somehow nowadays you are obligated to have an 'about me' page.
So, here it is.

Hi, I'm Sander, Developer, businessman, parent, and partner. Not necessary in that order.

Let me start at the beginning. The late seventies. I was a young boy when there came a computer in our home. Of course, my curiosity was immediately peaked. However, back then the computers didn't come pre-loaded with any software, so when I wanted to play with it, I had to program my own games first. Long story short. Turned out, I liked building the games more as I did playing them.

Fast forward to 1986. Here I made the business I was conducting for a while already legal. From this point on I'm a legitimate business owner. Selling build to order hard and software products. In a little while, the hardware became my own line of personal computers (or IBM clones as they were called back then!)

Fast forward again, now to 1992. The internet slowly became available here in the Netherlands. I started moving my focus towards there and started building what now would be called web apps.

Jump to 2009. I'm building web-app's using jQuery, Mochitools, and my own homegrown tool-set. Not very pleased with the state of affairs, I start building my own library, that encapsulates data into objects and store those objects into the DOM, so that I can have a single source of truth in my programs. While I'm building that I stumble on a yellow page, of something interesting, but it doesn't seem ready yet,

Still, I keep my eye on it. During 2010 it developed quickly into a usable state. I stopped building my own library and jumped over to AngularJS. It used the same idea, but it was ahead of what I was building.

Beginning 2012, deployed my first complete production application written with AngularJS

But I'm not all about business and coding. The most important part of my life is being a father of four. Boys and girls equally divided. Also, I'm very deep in love and happy with my wife. She is the most patient girl in the world. (At least to me!)