Self-taught developer who
builds tools that connect
hardware and code.

I am a marine mechanical engineer who taught himself to program. My background gives me something most developers don't have: I understand the physical machines behind the software.

I am the author of synology-api, the most widely used Python wrapper for the Synology NAS API. I build tools that solve real problems: automation, home infrastructure, integrations between hardware and software.

Outside of code I am an enthusiast of microcontrollers, robotics and 3D printing. I like making machines talk to each other, and I enjoy writing clear technical documentation that lets other people do the same.

I needed to automate jobs on my NAS: backups, monitoring, file operations, and some boring maintenance nobody wants to click through a web UI for. There wasn't a complete Python wrapper for the Synology API, so I wrote one.

It started as a tool for my own automation. The community and I kept adding modules until it covered almost the entire DSM surface, and it became what it is now.

Today synology-api is the most widely used Python wrapper for the Synology NAS API, with projects building on top of it. The lesson I keep coming back to: build the tool you wish existed, and solve your own problem first. If it helps you, it usually helps someone else too.