The use of Rust in software-development is gaining popularity. The produced software contains less security vulnerabilities than software produced with C/C++ and the developments can, in my experience, be completed faster.Volkswagen is making use of my expertise to, in collaboration with other departments, make recommendations for how to utilize Rust. This includes exploring and configuring tooling to do automated static and dynamic code analysis to ensure the software is of excellent quality as well as determining if from a business perspective, making a commitment to Rust make sense.

Mick Works was created in order to sell a project I did for a restaurant which smartly maneuvered itself through the Covid crisis by transitioning to a bulk order based sales model.I used worked at a Chinese restaurant which was transitioning to a bulk takeout/order based model and became very successful. The manually wrote down the orders and then later wrote that with black ink on plastic lids. The delivery guys often couldn't read that information. All of this often led to mistakes and therefore loss of business.I built an ordering system where they could enter customers' orders. The owners and the delivery people had a single up to date view of the orders. I also added the ability to print orders using a label printer. These labels contained complete and readable information for the delivery people and were easily placed on the boxes. I built a live dashboard and installed a monitor and RaspberryPI for the kitchen so they could see how much they chicken/beef/veggies they needed to prepare.

ROCSYS is developing a low cost robot that can automatically charge electric vehicles making use of existing intended-for-human infrastructure. My team and I were responsible for making the robot work as intended. In my year there we have enhanced the vision system, created automated test infrastructure to measure our current performance and shared it so we could propery prioritize our work, reworked configuration management, got rid of systematic errors in the motion control system and much more. It was a super intense year. We learned a lot of lessons and had a lot of fun while making meaningful contributions enabling the success of the company.

Logiqs builds carriers, lifts, automated tracks and other machines and installs them at greenhouses and recently warehouses to automate internal logistics. As an example, in order to save space, young plants are tightly packed and moved into a growing room until they become too big. They need to be moved back to a processing room where robots space the plants out for further growing. Eventually they end up getting packed and sold.My team maintained and extended the control software for these machines. This software has successfully provided greenhouse operators with the ability to automate logistical processes and trouble shooting aid for over 13 years. Current challenges are to make the logistics more intelligent, to support even bigger greenhouses and recently warehouses, to provide public interfaces with which our customers can have external parties integrate, to provide insight into the performance of the system, to improve the tooling around creating a virtual instance of the greenhouse, and more.Besides helping develop and maintain the software, I worked on improving communications between customers and other departments and to improve the culture of our team around accountability, and around software quality and testing.

I supported students during lab sessions. I pro-actively contributed improvements to the lab assignments and was subsequently asked to improve further labs.

I helped create the mobile application supporting a business oriented board game. I was responsible for the android implementation, APIs and database.

The TU Delft Bicycle and Motorcycle Dynamics group was working on a bicycle simulator. I was responsible for the transmission and visualisation of sensor data from a bicycle simulator. The team and I used an Olimex development board to read out sensors, run a bicycle simulation model and control the actuators. For fun I gamified the simulator by turning the visualization into a time-trial race using Unity. The game was then used when demonstrating the bicycle simulator.

I helped build a website which let our clients set up auto-mated processing of their invoices, worked with a team of external developers to develop our API, created an automated testing suite for our API, automated the generation of our own invoices by integrating multiple APIs and services.