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// ai engineer · entrepreneur · enschede, nl

I engineeradoption.

Interfaces between intelligent systems and the people who use them — protocols, products, and teams. This site is a digital twin of my work: every moving element maps to live state.

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~/map

System map

projects and domains as a typed graph — hover to trace, click to inspect
systemdomainlive now
geofence-twinvoltstreamdeckgentrackermatter-hometrendata-mcpfind-vendorglideviewjulius-ecosystemsauroneye → earthianagents · mcpdigital twinsllm · ragar · 3diot · matterux researchsystems eng
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Systems connect to the domains they exercise. The real site renders this from the same RDF graph that powers my digital-twin work — the map is queryable, not decorative.

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roc-auc · geofence anomaly scoring
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rdf triples in the live twin graph
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gating the deckgen accuracy core
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on the thread mesh right now
~/work

Selected systems

the live ones wear their own colors — full case studies behind each
geofence-twin · nebius serverless challenge

Semantic digital twin for vehicle telemetry

Hybrid trajectory prediction and anomaly scoring over GPS streams, backed by a SPARQL-queryable SAREF/RDF knowledge graph. Batch enrichment job plus a FastAPI inference endpoint, fully containerized on Nebius.

roc-auc 0.824724 380 triples1.9 s batch
read the case →deckgen · live product · write-up

Every number on the slide traces to its source.1

Internal PDFs become presentations where each figure resolves to an evidence ledger — an orchestrator fans out cite-only explorer agents per report, and a verifier gates the deck before it ships.

verify · 56/56 figures → ledger · 0 dangling
194 unit tests100% figures cited9 stages
1 deckforge-web.vercel.app — visual language: industrial blueprint × terminalread the write-up ↗tracker · live app

Kanban with an AI copilot

Multi-project boards with priorities, members, and an AI layer that summarizes columns and suggests next moves — the operations twin of how I actually run projects.

✦ summarize with ai
liveai summariesmulti-project
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voltstream · msc systems track

Multi-service EV charging platform

Service-oriented architecture where every service owns its database, speaks sync and async, and degrades gracefully when neighbours fail. Built with a contract-first, three-phase agentic workflow.

6 servicesper-service dbgraceful degradation
case study — in writing
matter-home · ongoing

Matter over Thread, custom devices as first-class citizens

Raspberry Pi 5 border router with a Nordic RCP radio, ESP32-C6/S3 nodes bridged into the Matter standard so home-built hardware behaves exactly like factory devices — same commissioning, same controls.

thread meshcustom ↔ factory bridgelive network
build log — in writing
trendata · msc enterprise track

Agentic marketplace + MCP for market intelligence

Extended a market-intelligence platform with a custom agentic marketplace and an MCP layer — turning a dashboard product into something agents can operate natively.

agent marketplacemcp layerdelivered
case study — in writing
find-vendor · founder

Agentic sourcing for industrial procurement

Agent-driven vendor discovery and outreach, researched hands-on with truck, food, and solar manufacturers. Sunset in 2025 — the full post-mortem lives in the story below.

3 industries researchedb2b architecturesunset 2025
post-mortem — in writing
~/story

The story

shipped, piloted, sunset — with the lesson each chapter paid for
2022 → 2024glideviewsunsetAR product presentation and a 3D-to-web optimization pipeline. Pilots ran; the market wasn't ready. Lesson: technology readiness ≠ market readiness — time the buyer, not the demo.
2023 → 2024julius-ecosystempilotedAt Julius Meinl Living, as Innovation Manager: a wallet-pass guest ecosystem with geo-anchored perks across a partner network — "if you stay at The Julius, every high-end door is open." Lesson: in hospitality, the product is the feeling of access — engineer for prestige, not features.
2024sauroneye → earthianexitedCommercial lead for AI-driven green investment assessment; negotiated with Swiss investment firms and Dutch insurers. Lesson: enterprise AI sells on auditability before accuracy. endorsement ↗
2024 → 2025find-vendorsunsetAgentic sourcing for industrial procurement, researched with truck, food, and solar manufacturers. Lesson: agents fail on trust, not capability — sell the audit trail first.
2025 → nowdeckgen · trackershippedCitation-backed decks and an AI-copiloted tracker — both live, both wired into this site's telemetry.
2025 → nownullspace · easylettersadvisingStrategic consulting: agentic-first product transformation, sales architecture, and product-market-fit work for two NL startups.
~/education

The education

three chapters, one question — dotted where the story continues
UT
chapter 01 · university of twente

BSc Creative Technology

Came in a maker, left an experience researcher. AR classifiers, a gamified workout copilot, an installation that made the weight of child labour tangible — and a closing thesis that mapped process-mining visualizations to the information needs of each corporate tier. Mental languages, formalized.

modulesresearch-through-designai & mlux research
learneddesign the adoption path before the product
skillsar prototypinguser trajectoriesroadmapping
thesismapping stakeholder needs to process-model artefacts ↗ — published, utwente
IIT
chapter 02 · illinois institute of technology

Cloud Computing minor

A semester of treating infrastructure as code: provisioning AWS through Terraform until the cloud stopped being a place and became a material. Hover — the stack assembles the way a plan should.

modulescloud architecturedistributed systems
learnedif it isn't reproducible, it doesn't exist
skillsawsterraformiac
UT
chapter 03 · university of twentein progress

MSc Business & IT — enterprise track

The integration layer: where AI systems meet business cases. TrenData's agentic marketplace, the decentralized digital twin, and VoltStream were all built here — around the question this whole site asks: what makes an organization actually adopt?

modulesenterprise architectureai in businessdigital twins
learnedadoption is an organizational property, not a feature
skillsagentic platformsmcpit–org integration
msc thesistopic forming — roadmap slot
graduationthe story continues ⇢
~/hackathons

Pressure tests

rapid builds — each one a story and the skills it burned in
2023 · insurance challenge @ achmea, leiden

Age-aware digital risk education

One insurance story, retold per generation: identity theft and impersonation phishing explained in each age group's own mental language — the rings widen, the message adapts.

rapid prototypingbehavioral designinsurance domain
press · the challenge ↗press · interview with me ↗
2023 · insurance challenge @ allianz, rotterdam

On-premise LLM for medical claim review

A secure, on-prem inference platform assisting medical reviewers on complex claims — retrieval-augmented with prose detection, built in the season when most enterprises were still deciding whether to trust LLMs at all. The lock stays closed; the tokens still flow.

on-prem llmearly ragclaim workflows
2026 · nebius serverless ai challenge

The geofence twin, under deadline

Built solo with the spec-driven agent framework and shipped ahead of the deadline — the same system that opens this portfolio, forged as a pressure test.

digital twinssparqlserverless
read the case →the article ↗
~/methods

The toolbox

methods and stack — what I actually run teams, agents, and systems on
spec-driven-agents

Spec-driven agentic development

Strategist / implementer / operator roles, per-module guardrails, adversarial read-only verification, and a live run as the definition of done. How I ship with Claude Code without losing the plot.

read the framework →
pcm-rapport

Mental languages

Process Communication Model applied to teams: find the baseline each person thinks in, then explain in their language. Hover — two signals phase-locking is the whole method.

talent-cards

The card catalogue

Every teammate as a card: how they think, what energizes them, what language lands. Team formation becomes deck-building — and burnout becomes visible before it happens.

founder-tracking

Motivation archaeology

From the business tracking school: founders rarely know what actually drives them. Dig past the strata of stated goals, find the real fuel — and lean iteration starts powering itself.

state-engineering

Energy before mood

Your state is secondary: no mood arrives on its own. Act with energy and relentlessness first — the effort changes the state, and the state follows the work.

permission-to-be-bad

Let yourself be bad

Detach the skill from the self and iteration becomes cheap. Being bad in public is the entry fee to being good — the scribble is how the clean line gets drawn.

langchain · langgraph
agent orchestration
rag pipelines
retrieval since 2022
knowledge graphs
rdf · sparql · saref
react · next · ts
atomic design
supabase
pgvector · rls · edge
claude code cli
daily driver
~/statusline

The statusline

the cockpit I actually fly claude code with — steal it
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Model: Opus 4.8  Context: [] 0/1.0M (0%)  | Cached: 0  Total: —  Thinking: high
⎇ no git  (no git)  (no git)  Mem: 23.4G/31.6G  Session: <1m  Session: 19.0%  Weekly: 4.0%
model · context bar · cache · thinking depth · git tri-state · mem · session load — built with ccstatusline, themed to match this site
~/life

Off the clock

the human layer — also live, also reacts
56mm · f/1.2 · 1/250 · iso 200
photography · shufflingA rotating strip from the feed — frames shuffle, the EXIF follows the lens.@ivan_von_terrible ↗ig feed slot
cross-countryCanyon Grand Canyon 8Hardtail on tan-wall Schwalbes — cross-country around Enschede and over the border. press-verified: "more bikes than the average Dutchman" ↗
 gpx feed
in the grinder · fancy beansSweet Peach — Colombia, HuilaPeach, caramel and honey; 12 h anaerobic cherry ferment, SCA 87. The current filter pick from my local roaster. the beans ↗ live
the gearFujifilm X-T2Fujinon 56mm f/1.2 · 18-55mm · 55-230mm — the prime for people, the zooms for the road. Hover: the aperture turns.gear
field notes · ecosystemWork session at ChargeHyveVisiting with NullSpace — "getting SpaceX investment advice while playing cards made my day."the post ↗field notes feed

The shelf

currently reading — hover the spines
The 48 Laws of Power
robert greene — reading now
Genius Inc
reading now — the team-genius book behind my methods
The Lean Startup
eric ries — re-read; build–measure–learn spins on hover
~/motto

You are the architect of yourself.

Anything within the laws of nature is buildable — most people just never start. I'd rather build. If you're building too, let's find out what our systems can do together.

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