I'm also an engineer with an appreciation for design, art, (engineering) culture, writing, and how they're all combined into the things that I and others create. One of my primary fears — and one of the few insults that would get to me — is being boring.
I mostly create through Boldport, my company and brand. Examples of my work are here, and some of it can be purchased here.
My CV has the dry facts of my so-called career so far; I kind-of look good on paper :). I'm available for — and interested in! — contracting work and
commissions. Please get in touch so we can discuss how I may be able to help.
Here's some more about me:
For three years I ran a service called the Boldport Club where I sent unique electronics soldering projects that I designed every month to over 500 people all over the world. The Club community is marvelous and lives on Discord and you can always find me there.
I created PCBmodE to combine circuit-boards, art, and coding, all of which I liked on their own. It's open source software written in Python, but is now quite dated; I'd love to create the next generation of it!
For a few years I was an academic, working on hardware and banking security. Stuff from those days is here.
I'm a compulsive doodler, not a morning person, and I really enjoy cooking. I moved to Amarante, Portugal from London in 2019 and love it here! I work a lot on my land, which involves a great deal of thinking about gardening, landscaping, and building projects... and sometimes actually doing them :). I'm the human to the greatest companion one could ever wish for, Mabel.
My name means storm in Hebrew. I use a healthy amount of m-dashes and semi-colons in my writing, undeterred by AI implications.
Art and coding are available on my GitHub, and you may be interested in subscribing to my newsletter. Please feel encouraged to email me — me@saardrimer.com or saar@boldport.com — with words of any kind.