Thanks for stopping by! Welcome to my corner of the internet. 🌻
I am currently based in Utrecht, The Netherlands 🇳🇱, but I've also spent a significant amount of time in Orange County, California 🇺🇸.
Recently, I obtained an MSc in Artificial Intelligence from Utrecht University. I also hold a BSc in Psychology & Technology from TU/e.
I'm currently exploring the Analytics Engineering space (whatever that means nowadays), so I consider myself proficient in SQL. This interest sparked during my time at Floryn, where I migrated the company from Looker to Metabase (check out our case study) and refactored legacy code from LookML to dbt.
I also advocate for open source software, which leads me to...
community
"de maatschappij, dat ben jij"Where it takes a village to raise a child, it takes a random person in Nebraska thanklessly maintaining a project since 2003 to keep all modern infrastructure up and running.
I strongly believe that we can only make the world a better place if we hold by the campground rule and leave things better than how we found them. As a woman in tech, I have received a lot of opportunities that allowed me to get to where I am in my career - the kickstart being a Kode With Klossy scholarship in 2016. Whether tech-related or not, I strive to give back to the community where I can, so others can receive even more opportunities than I did.
For developers, giving back usually means contributing to public repositories of code that are widely scrutinized utilized by the community for various applications. I've dipped my toes in the following repositories:
Outside of open-source contributions, my community involvement includes:
- publishing hidden gems on Atlas Obscura
- reviewing applications for NCWIT's Aspirations in Computing HS award
- organizing + speaking at a dbt meetup
- taking part in the Dutch AI Ethics Community
- doing a board year at the international student association of TU/e
- secretly running a Tumblr blog in high school
- not-so-secretly running a YouTube channel in high school with my best friend
hobbies
If I'm not staring at a screen, you can find me on the bouldering wall 🧗🏽♂️, playing viola in an orchestra 🎻, trying a new craft beer 🍺, trying to fingerpick on an acoustic guitar 🎸, reading a good book 📖, or chasing my next sidequest 🔍.