I like to understand how things work, so I can accept them when it makes sense or try to improve them when it doesn't.
View my CVFor the public market authority of Amsterdam I was tasked with developing an automated scheduling algorithm that would assign every sales person to their preferred market stall. Making the computer produce a humane result proved to be challenging. The working result is published on github.
For a sophisticated pricing system for the Watertaxi Rotterdam, I created a digital version of the harbor of Rotterdam in order to develop a navigation system that would serve as the basis of the pricing calculations.
I loved (and still do!) jq so much, I decided to try and implement it's language in a self-written transpiler to learn more about the process of designing a programming language. I've published my work on github.
I was invited to speak at BackboneConf to talk about my experiences using Backbone.js in a Geographical Information System I was developing at the time. The topic was optimizing performance when handling large amounts of geographical data.
On each deploy, we needed to build dozens of versions of the same app, each with different modules enabled. This was before tools like webpack existed, so I decided to build a modular build system myself using Jake and Browserify.