Lukas Van Driel
Founder & Chief Tech at 42 Puzzles
Gelderland, Netherlands
Summary
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Top SchoolLukas Van Driel is a seasoned software engineer and founder with 14 years of professional experience and nearly two decades of involvement at Q42, blending hands-on development with product and team roles. As Founder & Chief Tech of 42 Puzzles he builds world-class online puzzle tooling and playful experiments like Duomoji, while still contributing across web and IoT projects at Q42 and advising as a partner at Eidra. He works across C#, TypeScript and frontend stacks and is an experienced Google Cloud Platform user, comfortable shipping end-to-end web and cloud systems. Beyond engineering he’s taken on HR, community organizing and mentorship roles, reflecting a broad operational outlook. He’s active in grassroots tech education, having helped scale CodeUur’s mission to introduce coding to Dutch schoolchildren. Based in Gelderland, Netherlands, he combines entrepreneurial curiosity with a track record of practical, user-focused engineering.
14 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Bonaventura College LeidenIng / Bachelor, ICT & Media, Ing / Bachelor, ICT & Media at De Haagse Hogeschool / The Hague University of Applied Sciences
Dutch, English, French, German
Stackoverflow
711reputation
87kreached
11answers
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Github Skills (180)
realtime10
firebase10
firebase-authentication10
firebase-realtime-database10
hue10
firebase-admin10
typescript10
nodejs10
firebase-cloud-messaging10
mongodb10
firebase-functions10
npm10
firebase-storage10
firebase-db10
javascript9
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
Q42/MWHackathon
Mar 2012 - Apr 2021
Museums and the Web Hackathon april 2012
Contributions:28 commits, 1 PR, 1 push in 9 years 2 months
museumsapril
lukasvan3l/3l.nl-middleman
May 2020 - Mar 2023
Contributions:3 PRs, 4 pushes, 3 branches in 2 years 11 months
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