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Even though I was born in the south of the Netherlands, I've spend most of my life living in Groningen: a province and city at the very north of our country. Groningen is that kind of city that's filled to the brim with students, studying at, for instance, the Rijksuniversiteit Groningen (RuG). This gives the city a very young, energetic and progressive energy. Which is why I love living there to this day.

Above is a picture of the Noorderplantsoen, a park I spend quite some time at during my time at the RuG.

When I was about 18 years old, I started studying Computing Science at the Rijksuniversiteit Groningen. I really loved my time there and my brain took to the subject quite well. In my second year I started teaching too, working as a Teaching Assistant teaching first year's students how to program in C and how to do basic OOP in Java. In the following years I would continue teaching subjects, with my favourite subject being Computer Graphics. I graduated with a MSC in Computing Science in 2020, specializing in Software Engineering and Distributed Systems.

Above is a picture of the Bernoulliborg, our main faculty building. I used to spent a lot of time here.

At the end of my MSc I really had to start thinking about what I'd do after graduation. Luckily somebody introduced me to the Game Bakery: a collective of Game Developers sharing a cheap office. I founded my own freelance company there, specializing in solving difficult problems for game developers. It was a lot of fun, but I quickly learned how much I still needed to learn about running a company. What I really wanted was some more experience in the field of software engineering.

Through LinkedIn I found myself talking to the CTO of Gomibo. We met up in real life and had such a great talk I basically took the job on the spot. I got the opportunity to help the national telecom business grow into an international force, including expanding into the SaaS market. The experience really helped me grow my sense of business and project management. After that I felt like I needed a fresh perspective and joined iWink, which turned out to be more of a stepping stone to my current employer: GitLabHost. I'm having a lot of fun learning to become a DevSecOps Engineer, which requires skills I can directly apply to my own company, Hute.

The Hute Company is the company I founded out of my love for video games, business management and developing art tools. If you see a correlation between my articles and the work we do at Hute, that's no coincidence: It is the thing that fills most of my time these days.