Hi, I'm Charis

I’m the kind of person who can’t walk past something that works well without wanting to know why. A train that runs on time and somehow stays spotless, an airport that can coordinate thousands of passengers, aircraft and moving parts without most people noticing, something that’s cheaper than it has any right to be. I’ll go home and read about it. It’s not really a tech thing for me, it’s just how I look at the world: I want the mechanism, not just the result.

That curiosity is the same reason I build the way I do. I’m not comfortable accepting that something works until I understand the trade-off underneath it, why it was built this way and not another. I’d rather ship the smaller thing I fully understand than the impressive thing I’m hand-waving through.

Lately I’ve been feeling the pull toward software architecture: getting closer to the people I’m building for, understanding what they actually need and why, and having a hand in how a system fits together rather than just implementing the next ticket. Understanding the why has always been the part I like most, and that’s the direction it points.

I’m in Copenhagen because living abroad was a long-standing goal, and this is the city that fits the life I want to build right now. Outside work I’m trying to spend less time behind a screen, mostly by getting back to basketball and picking up sports I’ve been meaning to try.