Interview with Robert Lie (MobileFish)
Robert has a lot of experience creating tutorials. This time he tells us some of his thoughts about IOTA. Take a moment and enjoy a few of his ideas, and dont forget to visit his channel.
Clato Martin
Writer & Editor, IOTA Hispano
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Tell us a little about your background
I have studied aircraft engineering and after my study, I have done my Dutch mandatory military service. My first job was at Fokker Space & Systems where I worked on satellite subsystems as engineer. During that time Internet was slowly growing and I saw potential in this technology so I switched career to become a software/web developer. It was a hectic time! There was a huge demand for software developers and the company where I worked for grew from a few employees to more than 100 in 1.5 years time. Later on, I have worked for many years as a software developer for a bank. Just like many years ago I see history repeating itself, DLT is slowly growing and again I see huge potential in this technology.
When did you get involved in the DLT’s world? What was the first cryptocurrency you bought?
I think it was somewhere in 2014. A colleague was mining Bitcoin at that time and explained this technology to me and since then DLT caught my attention. I only hold IOTAs.
What would you recommend to someone who wants to start developing with IOTA but doesn’t have programming skills?
If you have never programmed before, I would recommend learning JavaScript. It is in the top 10 of the most in-demand programming languages. Most IOTA libraries are written in JavaScript.
Are you working in some development related to Cryptos?
Professionally unfortunately not, but for my YouTube IOTA tutorials I am creating small PoCs which I demonstrate in my videos. Creating these small PoCs, making the presentations and corresponding YouTube video takes a lot of time.
Why did you start with IOTA Tutorials, how do you manage to know about all that is going on?
In Oct 2017 I started with an IoT project which uses Ethereum, however, I realized that Ethereum was not the correct choice. I was researching which DLT I can use for my IoT project. I visited the 1st Dutch IOTA meetup where Harm van den Brink demonstrated the first IOTA charging station. It was an eye-opener and I wanted to know more about IOTA. There was not a lot a documentation available explaining this technology. To learn IOTA faster I was applying the Feynman Technique. The Feynman Technique revolves around explaining a concept in simple language as if you were teaching it to someone else. That is why I am making IOTA tutorials, to help me learn IOTA faster! By explaining one topic at a time, I slowly began to understand how it works.
