I’m Alya, originally from Utrecht but living in Helsinki now. I run a small boutique salon studio, and on the side I’m learning coding and exploring AI to make my work smoother. I’m not advanced in any of it yet.. just curious, disciplined, and trying to understand how systems actually work beneath the surface. My background is in beauty and business operations. Tech came later, mostly because I got tired of doing the same manual tasks every day. So now I’ve been slowly teaching myself: • basic coding • simple automations • n8n experiments • and how to design cleaner client workflows Nothing fancy yet.. but every month something clicks. I joined this community, because I want to study how more experienced builders think. Patterns, structure, logic… that’s what I pay attention to. I learn best by observing quietly first, then trying things on my own. If you work in systems, automation, AI from a practical perspective — or the security side — I’d love to know who to follow here. Good guidance makes a big difference when you’re still learning the landscape. Looking forward to contributing when I have something useful to add. Until then — I’ll be studying the patterns. — Alya