Most of my career has been working on web services and mobile apps but at some point this got old for me—in high school I was part of a soldering club and I had this lingering feeling that I wanted to get into ‘harder’ problems. Two years ago I started looking around for companies in Amsterdam and came across Monumental where I’m now working to automate construction using robots, starting with masonry. And let me tell you: it’s super satisfying to see a physical result like a wall get built when...