Senior backend engineer by day. Restless tinkerer, reader, and night owl when the sun goes down. Here's the fuller picture — the parts a CV leaves out.
Senior Backend Engineer at Dawn Technology, on the NPO Luister team — the listening platform behind public radio in the Netherlands. Content, recommendations, and the kind of audience scale that punishes shortcuts.
I care about the unglamorous foundations: clean APIs, GitOps that compounds, developer experience that makes the next person faster. The work that doesn't bite you in year two.
This is where the side projects live — happklaar, beatrax, the half-formed experiments. DevOps and AI tinkering for the joy of it, not the roadmap.
Progressive, neurodivergent, and convinced the best thinking happens after midnight when the noise is gone. I try to give a little back to the world while I'm at it.
"Community is the nucleus of everything — in tech, and in life."
A believer in collective intelligence and better ways for people to work together.
Hard sciences, soft sciences, and a deep love for Kurzgesagt. Curiosity is the engine.
Gaming since I was a kid. No preferred genre, one preferred platform: PC.
Relationships are one of the most important things in life. The nucleus of everything.
The best explainer of big ideas on the internet. Check them out — @kurzgesagt.
Where I unwind. Genre-agnostic, platform-loyal — it's PC or nothing.
The soft sciences pull at me as much as the hard ones. How people think, why we do what we do.
Trying to leave the world — and the web — a little better and a little safer than I found it.
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