About Me

I don’t believe software has intrinsic value, but I think it can serve as a powerful tool to help people do good in society. That’s why I love creating well-designed user interfaces for real people and crafting tools for developers to build better software.

Looking for something fun to do while waiting for my mom, a primary school teacher, to finish grading her students’ homework, led me to start programming at age 11.

At age 16, I co-founded my first startup Scholica, which primarily focussed on created learning apps for K-12 education in The Netherlands, and later became part of Infowijs.

After high school, I moved to London to co-found NearSt, a company providing modern commerce tools for thousands of physical retailers worldwide.

I’m currently spending my time building Examplary, in addition to my work with Street Art Cities and Ministry of Urban Culture, as well as writing about tech.

I'm available for consultancy and speaking engagements for topics like serverless architecture design, product strategy, developing for open source, and more.