About Me

Hi! I'm Scott, a front-end development student.

For as long as I can remember, I've always, always loved being creative. As a kid growing up in England, my parents used to joke about how I would sit for hours on end playing with Lego, building things, dismantling, re-building and never tiring of the experience. If I wasn't making things out of Lego, I'd be drawing or finding some other artistic pursuit.

My love of this transitioned as I became slightly older and throughout my teen years as it happened to coincide with an ever changing more digital world.

I'd create blogs, small webpages and continue to make things but as is sadly often the case with many people – I fell into the corporate trap and became swallowed up by day jobs that I didn't enjoy, very little social time and as a result the creative spark in me slowly extinguished.

Fast forward a few years to 2007 and I end up meeting my partner, now wife Emelie, and after a short period of travelling back and forward to Sweden to visit I made the decision to move permanently.

I won't pretend that it was a particularly easy transition but nevertheless, I was fortunate enough to find work after a few months of moving here – despite having absolutely no knowledge of Swedish at the time. It took a few years to fully adjust to my surroundings but I ultimately fell in love with my new home.

Fast forward to 2024 and after having worked for many years in IT I found myself being made redundant from a job I truly enjoyed, and in my mid 30's I faced a choice — continue in comfortable, but ultimately uninspiring roles, or finally take the leap into something I'd always dreamed of. So, at 37, I decided to study web development — confronting my old impostor syndrome head-on and reigniting the creative spark that started all those years ago with Lego and sketchpads.

My goal is simple: to make technology feel more human — beautiful, intuitive, and just a little bit fun. When I'm not coding I enjoy training and spending time with my three children, who never fail to remind me how creativity and curiosity start — and thrive — at home.

I'm currently searching for internship (LIA) opportunities — I'd love to hear from you: contact@gbg-web.com