Bart Warrot.

Developer by training, 12 years marketer, today fully in AI.

Growing up, my parents ran a petrol station, a car wash, and a sandwich shop at the same time. I always saw people who worked hard and learned how to do things along the way.

At 14 I built a Dragon Ball Z fan forum/game in PHP. No tutorial, no budget, no one to ask. It worked. I kept building things after that.

After IT school I traveled for a while. Spent time in Thailand training Muay Thai, met someone doing SEO for Irish companies at Irish salary rates. Before I flew home, I had my first client signed, no-cure no-pay. He stayed for five years. I never really stopped freelancing after that. Not because I had a plan, but because the flexibility suited me and the results came.

Over twelve years the work evolved: web design, SEO, performance marketing, enterprise analytics, and now AI. Each step the same pattern: I saw something interesting, went deep on it, made it useful. I'm a certified Data Protection Officer for the same reason: I work with a lot of data and I wanted to actually understand the responsibility that comes with it.

Learning is a permanent thing for me. Books, audiobooks, podcasts, courses, seminars. If something catches my interest, I don't let go until I understand it properly.