ESF Plus reporting platform
718 organisations in an EU-funded programme sent their reports through it. I was its only engineer for three years. After the 2025 handover, my employer commercialised it for €500,000.
In production
Takal Ashna
Software engineer based in Denmark
I build web applications and look after the systems they run on.
At ISG, I developed a Laravel reporting platform used by 718 organisations. I now build my own products and take on software projects through current56.
Systems I built
Status on 3 November 2026Unser Tag, kindergarten staff app
Built to replace a kindergarten team’s wall chart and WhatsApp group. Its backend was running 13 days after the first commit.
In testing with the teamVergabeautomat, tender search
Helps companies find public tenders. It reads the EU’s tender database and Germany’s federal notice service every day.
Live, pre-revenueList my Life, shared lists for iPhone
Shared lists that work offline, with their own sync engine. From first commit to Apple’s review took 7 days.
In App Store reviewApplied AI, thesis and a follow-up
My bachelor thesis, a multi-agent RAG assistant, graded 1.0. Then Sourceling, a multi-tenant retrieval prototype that runs on my machine.
Thesis archived, prototype localAvailability
- Looking for
- Client projects through current56, and a part-time role
- Software projects
- Please enquire through current56.de
- Employment
- Request my CV or write to me
- Where
- Remote for employers in Denmark or the EU. Hybrid in Aarhus and East Jutland.
- Notice
- One month
- Citizenship
- German, so EU. No sponsorship needed.
- Languages
- German native, English fluent
My own server
Measured 30 September 2026Visitors
through Cloudflare
One server, run with Coolify8 services, 2 databases
Tailscale only
encrypted
Admin and SSH
Backups in EU storage
Jobs and degree
Since 2022Software engineer and digital solutions owner at ISG Institut, a social research institute that works for German ministries.
2017–2021IT systems administrator at ISG: Microsoft 365, Entra ID, Intune and IT providers.
Since 2026current56, my sole proprietorship in Denmark. It runs the server above.
2026B.Sc. Information technology and media technology, University of Wuppertal. Thesis graded 1.0, the top German grade.
MethodHow I build
AI agents write almost all of my code. I make the design decisions, and CI runs on every pull request.
AI agents write almost all of my code. I make the design decisions, and CI runs on every pull request.