Laravel & Symfony
Production APIs, robust domain logic, and maintainable service architecture.
Based in Groningen · Starting at Simplicate in June 2026
Full stack engineer building pragmatic,
scalable software.
I started building for the web at 15 and still enjoy turning complex ideas into reliable experiences. Laravel, Symfony and Vue are my baseline. I also reach for Go, NATS and cloud tooling when a problem asks for it.
- Years shipping
- 10+
- Stack
- PHP · TS · Go
- Home
- NL 🇳🇱
// Stack
Things I reach for.
A practical toolkit for backend systems, frontend products, cloud-native workflows, and performance-minded delivery.
Vue & Nuxt
Interactive interfaces with clear state management and component-driven structure.
Tailwind CSS
Fast UI iteration with consistent spacing, hierarchy, and responsive behavior.
Docker & Kubernetes
Predictable local and CI environments across services and platforms.
Go
Lightweight services and tooling where simplicity and performance matter.
Event-driven systems
NATS, Kafka, RabbitMQ. Designing reliable async workflows between services.
// Career
The road so far.
UpcomingJun 2026 → nowSenior Engineer
Simplicate · Groningen
Joining the Simplicate engineering team in June 2026 to help build their business software platform for professional services.
WorkJan 2022 → May 2026Developer · Scrum Master
PeterPrint · Groningen
Worked on the Magento 2 webshop and a growing fleet of Symfony microservices, Nuxt storefronts and event-driven integrations. Scalable architecture, NATS messaging, and developer workflows. Also served as Scrum Master for the team, making sure Scrum practices were followed. Main back-end code reviewer.
CertificationMay 2025 → May 2025Agile Scrum Master Training
Agile Scrum Group · Remote
Scrum Master training covering sprint facilitation, backlog refinement, and team coaching.
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WorkJan 2014 → Dec 2021Founder · Full stack developer
MEN Technology & Media · Groningen
My own company. Designed, built and shipped Laravel + Vue web applications for a wide range of clients. Ran everything end to end: discovery, architecture, delivery, hosting and client relationships.
WorkNov 2021 → Nov 2021Back-end developer
Qlic Internet Solutions B.V. · Groningen
Short stint writing PHP back-end code. Good people, not the right fit for me at the time.
CertificationNov 2021 → Nov 2021Senior Laravel Developer Exam
Laravel LLC · Arkansas City
Official Senior Laravel Developer certification issued by Laravel LLC.
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EducationSept 2012 → Feb 2020HBO-ICT (Bachelor)
Hanzehogeschool Groningen · Groningen
Bachelor in ICT, with a focus on software engineering.
WorkOct 2017 → Sept 2018Junior developer
RAPIDE Internet · Groningen
First professional steps in web development: PHP, JavaScript, and a lot of learning on the job.
WorkOct 2010 → Oct 2012Kitchen worker
Bilderberg Landgoed Lauswolt · Beetsterzwaag
Before code there was mise en place. Taught me pace, precision, and grace under pressure.
- A&OCertificationMay 2009 → May 2009
Anglia English (Level C1)
Anglia & Optima · Groningen
Anglia English Proficiency Level C1 certification.
// Lab
Currently building.
Side projects that keep me sharp. Mostly about giving large language models something interesting to do.
North star
A fully automated agent setup that builds my projects for me.
Everything below is a piece of the same puzzle: durable memory, a shared task API, tools that navigate my notes, and worlds where agents can collaborate. The end state is a self-driving lab where I brief the agents and they ship.
Pixel Agents
Stardew-style villages and top-down offices inhabited by LLM-driven NPCs. Each agent has a role, a portrait, a backstory, coordinates, and a job to do. They chop trees, farm code, and chat in speech bubbles while they work.
TypeScriptLLM agentsPixel art
Claude Dashboard
Central task API plus a runner that polls it and executes work on my machine. A small dashboard UI on top to watch tasks live, queue new ones, and review results.
runner── polls ──▶api
dashboard◀── renders ──tasks
NodeQueueLLM ops
Local Brain
Self-hosted vector search + RAG over my Obsidian vault. Fastify, Ollama, sql.js. An /ask endpoint that answers with citations to the exact notes it used.
Onlineqwen3:8b573 files3626 chunks
SearchAsk
What did I do last week?
You worked on the Claude Dashboard [04-07 log], refactored code, shipped a new logo.
FastifyOllamaRAG
Zettelkasten PKM
A Luhmann-style Obsidian vault: atomic notes, dense wikilinks, MOCs. The source of truth Local Brain and Mempalace index and query.
573 notes · Home → MOCs (Maps of Content)
ObsidianAtomic notes
Mempalace
Structured memory for LLM agents: wings, rooms, drawers, tunnels. A taxonomy-first knowledge graph agents can traverse instead of stuffing everything into a vector soup.
🏛 palace/
└─ wing: engineering
└─ room: nats
└─ drawer: retry-backoff
↘ tunnel → room: kafka
MCPKnowledge graph
Claude Code plugins
Custom skills, slash commands and CLAUDE.md conventions that turn Claude Code into a team member. /review, /bug, /zettel, /sprint-review, /security-review, plus a skill-codex wrapper to bring in Codex CLI when it helps.
/review/bug/zettel/sprint-review/interview/security-review
~/.claude/skills/ → skill-codex, mempalace…
CLAUDE.md → conventions per project
Claude CodeSkillsSlash commands
PKM Gardener
Autonomous agent that drains 0 Inbox/, promotes fleeting notes into proper Zettels, enriches seedlings with tags and wikilinks, and kicks Local Brain to reindex. The feedback loop that keeps the vault sharp for every other agent.
0 Inbox/
→seedling
→permanent
🤖 gardenerenrich · tag · link · reindex
$ garden --promote --dry-run=false
AgentsObsidianZettelkasten
Claude API tinkering
Where I explore the primitives: prompt caching, tool use, extended thinking, batch, citations. Everything I build for agents starts here as a 40-line experiment.
// prompt caching + tool use
await anthropic.messages.create({
model: "claude-opus-4-7",
tools: [fs, bash, grep],
});
Anthropic SDKExperiments
// Open source
Published packages.
Small, focused libraries I maintain publicly on GitHub.