A web engineer with a passion for distributed & local-first tech.

Born in Belgium shortly after the World Wide Web proposal was written and just before the Berlin Wall fell. Currently living in Aalter with my partner. Besides messing around with distributed tech, in my spare time I like discovering new music, gaming with friends, some light hiking, and if health allows, the occasional weightlifting session.

Career

I started out in 2011 as a full-stack web dev at a company called Mr. Henry where I implemented various unique and special web designs, ranging from eccentric artistic websites to generating typefaces in a HTML canvas. They had a custom CMS behind these websites written in Ruby, which is one of the first programming languages that I loved. I'll forever treasure Why's Poignant Guide.

Several years later I ended up working remotely for MetaLab, a product design and development studio based in Canada. There I started working mostly on web applications, learning a lot about user interfaces and user experience design. During this time I also learned a bunch of new programming languages and got introduced to functional programming.

That entire time I also worked on a side project which would eventually get me into Fission, my third gig, where I worked with new protocols to help establish a local-first & distributed/decentralised web with more user agency. This was my introduction to cryptography, software security and various low-level protocols that make up the web.

Sadly Fission ran out of funding. Since then I've been working freelance on various projects in the same scene, helping the web and software become more distributed, malleable and better for the people.