About me

Mathematician | Web developer | Content creator

My name is Martin Brandenburg. I live in Berlin, Germany. 🏡

Before coming to web development, I devoted most years of my life to pure mathematics, which is one of my biggest passions and strongest skills. I worked at the university and completed my Ph.D. in 2014. 🎓

My mathematical publications are listed at my nLab page, but I have also written thousands of posts in discussion forums, notably on mathoverflow and math.stackexchange. In 2014 I left academia, but I still publish research articles from time to time. I also published a textbook on category theory. 📚

After leaving university, I worked as an IT admin in a non-profit organization for animal welfare. In this context, I learned the basics of web development and devoted most of my free time on it since 2019. I also observed many parallels between mathematics and web development, and my problem-solving skills helped me a lot. Around that time I also created my YouTube channel on web development. 💻

Since 2022 I work as a full stack web developer for a company in the sports retail industry. If you are interested, see Tools for the list of tools I am familiar with. 🧪

In the context of web development, on YouTube and Twitter I go by the name Script Raccoon. And yes, raccoons are my favorite animals! 🦝

When I am not sitting at my laptop coding SvelteKit apps, you can probably find me in the rehearsal room playing the drums. 🥁