Due to my current living situation, much of my more meaningful previous work is no longer hosted. I can provide links to the repos or video demonstrations on request.
After building a strong enough reputation, and feeling confident enough in my own abilities I took the leap and decided to work as a full-time freelance developer.
Created websites to build a subscriber database for various online newsletters. Was also responsible for html email templates, an accessible sign-up and cancellation user experience and building a portal for newsletter authors.
While working as a freelancer, I would spend most of my free time between projects reading the latest cosmology research. Having previously studied physics, not computer science, I was drawn towards these deep questions regarding the way the Universe truly works. After coming across an assumption that was made in the early days of relativity that I felt I might be able to demonstrate as false, I left paid software work and began to focus solely on formalizing this new relativistic geometry.