Due to my current living situation, much of my more meaningful previous work is no longer hosted. I can provide links to the repos or video demonstrations on request.
An open source academic note taking framework
While still working part-time in unrelated fields I was able to build my skills while accepting small to medium sized jobs on various online freelance platforms.
After building a strong enough reputation, and feeling confident enough in my own abilities I took the leap and decided to work as a full-time freelance developer.
While working as a freelancer, I would spend most of my free time between projects reading the latest cosmology research. Having previously studied physics, not computer science, I was drawn towards these deep questions regarding the way the Universe truly works. After coming across an assumption that was made in the early days of relativity that I felt I might be able to demonstrate as false, I left paid software work and began to focus solely on formalizing this new relativistic geometry.