Coen Klosters
Technical Director at NAP Labs
Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands
Summary
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Top SchoolCoen Klosters is a Technical Director and lead developer of the NAP Framework at NAP Labs, where he architects and ships performance-critical, real-time systems that bridge humans, machines and environments. With a decade of experience across games and VFX, he previously built large-scale tools and automated content pipelines at Guerrilla Games and helped develop Houdini’s Pyro simulation stack at Side Effects Software. His background spans C++, C#, and Python plugin and engine work for editors like Maya, Houdini and World Machine, enabling complex procedural workflows and scalable simulation tooling. Known for turning demanding artistic requirements into reliable, high-performance software, he combines hands-on coding with technical leadership and client-facing delivery. He’s given international seminars on recursive algorithms, solvers and dynamic environments, reflecting a strong inclination toward both deep technical craft and teaching. Based in Amsterdam, he brings a rare blend of film/VFX artistry and game-engine pragmatism to solve computationally intensive problems.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Audio Visual Design, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Audio Visual Design at Academie St. Joost BredaMaster of Arts (MA), Digital Arts, Distinction, Master of Arts (MA), Digital Arts, Distinction at Bournemouth University
English, German, Dutch, French
Github Skills (41)
vulkan10
robotics10
3d-graphics10
low-latency10
cross-platform10
data-visualization10
ethercat10
raspberry-pi10
api9
industrial-automation9
documentation-generator8
subset8
sdl7
opengl7
imgui7
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
napframework/nap-modules
Mar 2023 - Feb 2025
Collection of user shared NAP Modules
Contributions:3 reviews, 8 PRs, 25 pushes in 1 year 11 months
napnapframework
napframework/nap
Sep 2016 - Jan 2023
NAP Framework source code
Contributions:18 releases, 71 reviews, 4263 commits in 6 years 5 months
3d-graphicsaudiovideoc-plus-pluscross-platformdata-driven-design
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