About
Engineer by trade, tinkerer by default.
I'm Jens — a software and infrastructure engineer based in Rotterdam. I started programming at twelve to make mods for Minecraft, and that mix of building something and then keeping it running for other people has shaped everything since.
These days I work on real-time systems professionally, and at home I run game servers and poke at IoT projects. I like the unglamorous parts — deploys, monitoring, the boring reliability work that means nobody notices anything went wrong.
When I'm not at a keyboard you'll usually find me somewhere around Rotterdam, or still at a keyboard, just for fun.
Work history
SpeakSee
Software & infrastructure engineerBuilding real-time translation and live subtitling on dedicated AV hardware — the systems that turn speech into accurate captions on screen, in the moment.
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Side projects & open source
BingoMC, marktplaats-py and a steady stream of smaller tools — where I learned operations the hard way, in public.