The road so far.

Feb 2023 — Present

Work Current

Backend Developer

NOBEARS · Heusden

NOBEARS is an internet agency where Development, Social, Marketing and Concept & Design collaborate continuously to deliver the best work for clients. I started here as an intern and joined the team after completing my internship.

• Building in-house projects with Pimcore and Symfony
• Handling client service tickets and keeping live platforms healthy
• Working closely with design, social and marketing colleagues

The Line was happy with the work I delivered during my internship, so they asked me back as a developer for the summer. This time it was a side job alongside my studies, not an internship.

• Continued developing the PDF reporting tool I built during my internship, which turns financial and customer-activity data from external APIs into polished reports
• Worked independently as part of the team, picking up right where I left off

My first real-world development experience, working on internal tooling and products for clients.

• Built a tool that retrieves financial and customer-activity data from external APIs and transforms it into polished PDF reports
• Contributed to a web-based presentation tool with a React front end and a Laravel back end

After high school I pursued a career in software development. I followed the accelerated track, which allowed me to skip the entire fourth year and graduate early.

What started as tinkering with my own Minecraft server turned into years of plugin development as a hobby. I taught myself Java entirely on my own along the way, from the first lines of code to complete, working plugins. These projects are no longer actively maintained.

• HammyMagic
• HammyRestart
• Rebootly

Aug 2016 — Jul 2020

Education

MAVO / HAVO

Willem van Oranje College · Waalwijk

My final exam year coincided with the first wave of COVID-19, and national exams were cancelled. I completed my school exams with great results, a lesson in resilience and adaptability that I still carry with me.

2008 — 2016

Education

Primary school

De Dromenvanger · Noord-Brabant

Formerly known as De Romeroschool. A nurturing environment that gave me a strong foundation for everything that followed.