Martijn De Boer
Online Community Moderator
Drachten, Frisia, Netherlands
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Top SchoolMartijn De Boer is a pragmatic backend developer with roughly two decades of experience modernizing legacy systems and building lightweight, dependency-free PHP services paired with MariaDB/MySQL and SQLite. He excels at database performance tuning, WAL-mode and index strategies, backend architecture, automated testing and pragmatic integrations across file and network boundaries. At Coolminds he led projects for healthcare VR, biofeedback-enabled web experiences and a family-therapy serious game, while volunteering as an online community moderator for privacy-focused networks. An active open-source contributor and translator, he built tools like libcombustd and haxe-linguistics and has a history of hosting build services and shipping small but impactful patches across projects such as Chromium and OSSEC. He pairs technical depth with clear, readable documentation and a knack for making complex systems accessible to non-technical stakeholders. Outside engineering he’s a pre-AI-era music artist and amateur linguist, combining creativity with a strong interest in NLP and cognitive science.
16 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
HBO, PSYCHOLOGY, HBO, PSYCHOLOGY at NTICertificate, Software Architecture, Certificate, Software Architecture at Open University NetherlandsMBO, IT Media, MBO, IT Media at ROC Friese Poort
Dutch, English, German, frisian, Swedish
Stackoverflow
80reputation
4kreached
5answers
2questions
Github Skills (200)
rspec10
tuxedo10
matrix10
html10
nlp10
xmpp10
json-api10
bitbucket10
linguistics10
privacy10
ossec10
energy10
ruby10
hosting10
social-media10
Programming languages (24)
Github contributions (5)
theimpossibleastronaut/diorama
Jan 2015 - May 2021
First steps into 3d, three.js and virtual reality
Contributions:1 PR, 2 pushes, 1 branch in 6 years 4 months
realityconfiguratorvirtual-realitywebglfirst-steps
theimpossibleastronaut/awesome-linguistics
Oct 2014 - Nov 2022
A curated list of anything remotely related to linguistics
Contributions:1 review, 38 commits, 18 PRs in 8 years 2 months
nlplanguage-processingremotelylinguistics
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