I graduated from the Technical University in Delft in 2002, at the group Pattern Recognition and Image processing of the faculty Applied Physics, working on soccer playing robots in a team of approximately 10 students. As part of this graduation project we participated in the RoboCup World Championships in 2001. During my studies I already worked part time in the software industry, mostly writing visual basic and C++ applications for a proprietary CMS system.After my graduation I started to work as Java software engineer. From working at Nuon at the Java server back-end, in 2004 I moved to MarketXS, an IT company specialized in distributing (realtime) financial market data. I worked mostly on the main entitlement, session management and reporting system for clients of this data called UserXS, for which I both did the architecture and development. In august 2007, I joined former colleagues in founding a startup called Layerstream, which focussed on advanced technology for real time video streaming. A US entity was set up in Silicon Valley in January 2008 and we tried to find VC investment there.Within Layerstream I was largely responsible for the video coding software and integration with the network components.In july 2008 I returned to The Netherlands and started doing freelance software development, mostly specializing in iPhone and Java server side development. Since then I built over 10 apps for several companies, including Greetz, EveryTrail, KLM and Ahold.On the side I joined an old friend in his startup company BehindMedia and started building the platform and iPhone app for our product BehindTheFrontDoor which went live the first of october 2012.Specialties: iPhone/iPad development, scalable server applications, mostly in Java (JEE), also web applications, realtime processing, image/video processing. Strong theoretical foundation because of my background in physics and mathematics.