William Fridh

I like to see myself as a well-structured problem solver with great determination and a love for innovation. Funny enough, a very similar view I share with my friends. These trails combined with my experience as a producer and project leader have made me who I am today. Someone who wished to keep developing, to lead teams of gifted people, and someone who can see a thousand solutions to any problem.

My goal in life, apart from good health and happiness, is to have a positive impact on the world. I want to know that I left the world a better place by the time I’m done.

My Journey As a Developer

My journey as a developer started at around the age of 14 when I learned how to create custom maps for Blizzard’s game Warcraft 3. I felt like sharing these creations of mine with the world, so I started looking into creating a website.

With no experience in the field, I explored the options where you didn’t have to write code and landed in WYSIWYG Web Builder for my first websites. However, one day a relative recommended me to look into writing the code myself. This recommendation led me down a rabbit hole I’m still exploring the depths of, and I wouldn’t leave even if I could.

I started learning HTML, CSS, PHP, and MySQL. Noted how I didn’t list JavaScript? That came later, alongside good old jQuery. With these tools, I built many different things, such as:

• A CMS with support for posts, pages, plugins, and themes.
• A platform that offered free hosting for HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and images, accessible via a custom subdomain (intended for educational purposes).
• A platform for creating, and managing digital quotes.
• An order management system (collab).
• And so on…

As time went by I kept the developer side of me as a hobby and tried my luck in other industries. Then, in 2021, I decided it was time to fully heartedly join the IT industry. So I started by reading up on TypeScript, React, Redux, and Firebase and managed to get some certificates on Codecademy.

I started applying for jobs and quickly started getting responses. However, during an interview, the representative for the company said something unexpected. He said that I needed a greater challenge than they could offer. And I felt like this was true.

The next thing I knew, I had my eye on a Bachelor! This required me to read up on Maths and Physics, as well as doing well on the Swedish Scholastic Aptitude Test on my first try (as I was eager to start and didn’t wanna wait an extra year). Fortunately, everything went as smoothly as a CSS animation.

Soon I had a bachelor’s degree in in Information and Communication Technology from KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm Sweden. A program that gave me a deeper understanding of things such as:

• Mathematics
• Computer Programming
• Engineering and Communication
• Digital Electronics
• Modern Software Development
• Computer Security
• Industrial Economics

Today, I’m working on my masters in Machine Learning (at the same university), where I’m yet to pick exact path for the upcoming years and master degree project. Perhaps something related to robotics, neuroscience, or simply agentic systems combined with large language models. We’ll see!