Merijn van Wouden, software developer and inventor. Zaandam, NL.

I like problems that ask for a little invention. The aim is to understand a problem well enough that the solution becomes small.

Four doors

Work is the resume, a timeline of everything since 2010 and the GitHub numbers. Life is LEGO, things fixed with wood and wire, photographs and food. Writing is essays, notes and a journal. Now is what I am listening to and watching, as it happens.

Lately

Lead developer on a legal tech platform that walks entrepreneurs through international law. Directing a proof-of-originality system on Polygon and Ethereum. Lead AI developer on a neural recommender that plans itineraries anywhere in the world. Overseeing development at one of Europe's larger booking platforms.

The interesting sentence is usually the one about what could not be done, and what was done instead. Each of these has a page that says so:

Guidesty · Morgen is Nu · ThuiszorgInHolland · UpLinked · SUYE · Kwantor

The rest, back to 2016, is on the timeline.

Open source

Small tools, each written because something was missing:

icloud-offload · mailcow-status-tracker · media-tunnel · next-zod-api · solwrap · trapcalculator

Writing

A note is something I haven't finished thinking about. An essay is an argument I'm willing to defend. Both at /writing.

Made

A 3D triskelion in LEGO, a domino train, a trammel of Archimedes, a Duplo marble run, a hand-powered milk frother. Also ink caps, photographed. The rest is on the wall.

Background

Artificial Intelligence at the University of Amsterdam (BSc, 2009 to 2014). Dutch and English daily, fluent in Russian and German, some French and Turkish.

Elsewhere

m@hacktis.ch | github | lichess | linkedin