life
I live in the Netherlands with my partner, our two kids, and the dog. The rest of my time goes to drumming, collecting vinyl, 3D printing, gaming, and evenings with friends.
I drum on an acoustic kit when the house allows it and an e-kit when it doesn't. The soundtrack: Drum 'n Bass, deadmau5, rock, metal, metalcore, and plenty more.
Big sci-fi and fantasy fan: Star Wars, Lord of the Rings, and Brandon Sanderson's Mistborn series.
Favourite games: Skyrim, The Witcher 3, Zelda: Breath of the Wild and Tears of the Kingdom, and Clair Obscur: Expedition 33.
Also: astronomy and physics. I will happily lose an evening to a video about black holes.
at work
I started coding at 14, writing little Windows tweak tools in Visual Basic, and never really stopped. I went on to study computer science and have been building software for a living since 2013.
These days I'm on the Patient Journey App team, now part of Legrand Care. I wrote the app's first line of code, and it has since guided more than a million patients through their treatment. I'm the tech lead, which mostly means working across the whole stack: architecture, code review, CI/CD, and keeping our Kubernetes clusters running.
technologies
Laravel on the backend, React and TypeScript on the frontend, React Native with Expo on mobile, and Kubernetes underneath. Lately I've been writing Rust, mostly for fun and sometimes for speed. I believe in open source and give back where I can, though I'd like to do more. My own work is on the projects page.
homelab
The most over-engineered corner of the house. A Proxmox box runs Home Assistant. An Unraid server hosts Immich, Paperless-ngx, Syncthing, and more containers than I really need, with parity drives keeping the data safe. A UniFi network connects it all.
The 3D printers count too: a Bambu Lab P1S and a heavily modded Ender 3 running Klipper and Mainsail. Tinkering is the point.