A one-man-band for journalism, literary- and software-based creative arts. Surfcheck is the vehicle for all my freelance work.Journalism: regularly publishes in Financieele Dagblad, Quote, Leidsch Dagblad, several Reshift titles.Software: developing and maintaining 30+ mobile apps for iPhone, iPad, Android (and once also Blackberry 10 and Windows Phone). 3 million+ downloads, 500.000+ active users and 6.5 million unique sessions per month. All apps in native Java, Objective-C/Swift and C#, running on four LAMP-based VPSes. It's a rabbit hole getting deeper and deeper, still wondering where it ends.See: http://surfcheck.info

Building the best interactive water map for the Netherlands, Belgium and Germany. Based on open data. Highly popular among water sports enthousiasts and professionals alike. 1.6 million+ p/y (!) unique visitors on waterkaart.net / waterkaart.nl. 40k+ active users on iOS and Android.

A high available API platform that provides Weather APIs for professional use. Worldwide hyperlocal synoptics and forecasts for infrastructure, AI, (renewable) energy, offshore and services. Used among a broad selection of companies in energy, industry, infrastructure monitoring, leisure, agriculture, app development, cloud appliances and statistics.

Editor for the Dutch business magazine Quote. Combining cold hard journalism with glamour and entrepreneurial spirit. Extra bonus: coded the Quote apps + server backends several years in a row.Check out my portfolio: http://www.martijndemeulder.com

Producing and Importing medium quantities of custom made toddlers' textiles from Bangladesh and Egypt and wholesaling them to printing houses, advertising agencies, web shops and brick and mortar stores.Extremely valuable finger exercise in entrepreneuring, offered great insights in the way (inter)national trade works, and how thin margins in this kind of business actually are.

Lifestyle related writing, but it wasn't really my thing.

Worked for the best popular IT magazines in the golden days of the paper based tech mags. Learned a lot, made stuff that readers really liked. It paid for my one and a half year travelling in Asia.