Hi, I’m Aren.

I moved to Sweden from Albania in 2017, but my curiosity for technology started much earlier.

As a kid, I had a habit of taking toys apart just to understand what was happening inside them. Toy cars were especially interesting. I wanted to know how a small electric motor could turn the wheels, how batteries made everything move, and what would happen if I connected things differently. A fair number of toys were sacrificed in the process.

Later, my dad brought home an Acer laptop. At first, like most kids, I mainly wanted to play games on it. Eventually the same curiosity came back. I wanted to understand how the things on the screen were actually made. Taking the laptop apart was obviously not a great option, so for a while I was left wondering until I found Scratch from MIT. I still remember the cat. It was my first real introduction to giving a computer instructions and seeing how logic, events and simple building blocks could turn into something interactive.

After moving to Sweden, I started exploring programming more seriously. YouTube became one of my first teachers. I began with basic HTML and small experiments. I still remember following a tutorial where the instructor kept opening localhost:3000. I had written the same code, saved the file and kept visiting the same address, wondering why absolutely nothing appeared. A few tutorials later, I finally understood what I was missing.

From there I kept building small hobby projects and games. Most of them were far too early and messy for GitHub, and I genuinely wish I had saved more of them. GitHub came later.

At NTI Gymnasiet, I chose the Technology Programme with an IT focus. That was where programming became much more than a curiosity. I could finally study it properly, build larger projects and understand more of what was happening behind the things I had been experimenting with for years.

From there, the path continued to KTH, my own projects, Korbnet, client work, my bachelor’s thesis, Ericsson R&D, and eventually Korbnet AB.