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Creating great software and happy, productive teams
About me
I'm a software engineering manager in Arlington, Virginia. I love technology and working with people to build great software.
I started my career as a Java software developer and I've been managing software teams since 2004.
I grew up in the Netherlands and immigrated to the United States eight years ago for work and adventure. I'm married to Sasha and in February 2012 our daughter Nora was born.
Technology I love
- High performance Java: In my current job there's a strong emphasis on high scalability, availabilty and security. We do some pretty cool stuff, but it's confidential
- ExtJS and Ruby on Rails: At Raritan, I created a power management appliance that generated multi-million dollar revenues. Software stack was ExtJS, Ruby on Rails, Java, Postgress and CentOS
- Drupal: I've been a Drupal enthousiast for many years.
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Random facts
I was quoted in The Economist and my site was posted on Slashdot. I speak English and Dutch fluently, and pretty decent German, French and Bulgarian. I founded Dutch in America.com which has more than 3,300 fans on Facebook.
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Recent blog posts
My blog has been around since 2001; I use it to stay in touch with friends and family and occasionally write about technology. Here is a selection of those technology oriented articles:
- Cloudera Sessions (May 2013)
- Liars and Outliers: enabling the trust that society needs to thrive (November 2012)
- Software on the Curiosity Mars rover (August 2012)
- Responsive Web Design (April 2012)
- Scalable Internet Architectures (April 2012)
Books I recently read
I like to write short reviews on books I read.
