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Pieter Willekens

// Dad, developer and drummer.

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at work

I'm tech lead on the Patient Journey App at Interactive Studios. I wrote its first line of code. Today it's used by over 100 healthcare institutions worldwide and has guided more than a million patients through their treatment.

I work across the whole stack: architecture, code review, CI/CD, and keeping our Kubernetes clusters running. I also share what I know with the team and keep up with where the tech is heading.

I started coding at 14, writing little Windows tweak tools in Visual Basic. I went on to study computer science and joined Interactive Studios in 2013.

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.

outside of work

When I'm not at a keyboard, I'm 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.