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Hello there, I'm Tim! I live in Holland 🇳🇱, and am currently in my twenties. My everyday passion is to develop awesome high-quality software to make life just that much better.

See the Me on the web section below for a more-complete overview, especially my git profiles.

Here is my usual developer sales pitch, as posted on my LinkedIn profile:

Sales pitch

  • Open-source & free software enthusiast
  • Linux fanatic
  • Rust evangelist
  • Git master
  • Vim wizard

Self-educated software engineer started at 8 years old, always looking to expand my technical knowledge with challenging projects.
Drive to built reliable, secure, robust & high-performance software with the best technologies available to make the digital world a better place. Constantly searching for innovative solutions to develop software not just for robots, but also for humans.

Interests

  • Application back-end development
  • Systems programming (Rust)
  • Automation, containerization (Docker)
  • Linux

Experience

  • Java
  • Web technologies (PHP, HTML, JavaScript)
  • CI/CD
  • Python
  • Bash
  • C#
  • LaTeX
  • Windows
  • and much more

Me on the web

I prefer to make software I work on open-source, because I find it important to allow anybody to modify, contribute, improve, inspect and verify it. I also contribute to various other open projects as well. All of it is available on my git profiles:

As any developer, I use Stack Overflow and alike for development and IT related questions and answers:

I do my news reading and social activity through the following websites:

Here are some other noteworthy profiles of mine:

To send me a message, please check out the Contact page.

Other things I like

Some other random things I like besides my usual development activity that I didn't list above are:

  • Music, to listen to, usually while at work
    • Deep house, House, Electronic, Techno and related
  • DIY (Do it Yourself) projects of various sorts, just to be creative
  • Gaming, oh yes
  • Scouting and other activities, outside, in-nature, such as camping or hiking