Adrian Enßlin

May 2026.

Three years. Three training programs. One job. One freelance project. Several personal projects. A lot of late nights.

And now I'm holding my DevSecOps certificate in my hands.

July 2025. My backend certificate.

I was grateful. Truly. This training gave me so much — APIs, databases, authentication — everything that powers a website behind the scenes, invisible but essential.

And then I faced a question.

January 2025. My first job as a developer.

F+S GmbH, a wholesale company in the natural stone industry. My task: Build a complete e-commerce shop. Alone. From scratch.

I barely had time to feel excited. Because right after came the fear.

October 2024. One year after my first HTML tag, I held my frontend certificate in my hands.

It sounds simple. But anyone who has pushed through a bootcamp knows: it's anything but.

January 2024. Mimo was done, and I realized: I still couldn't build a real website.

I understood syntax. I could solve exercises. But when I had a real project in front of me, I was lost. The gap between "solving tasks" and "building something of your own" was enormous.

It all started with an idea.

I had an app in my head — an idea that wouldn't let me go. So I did what everyone does when they want something they can't do themselves: I reached out to software companies. The quotes they sent back left me speechless. Sums I didn't have and couldn't have raised.