Michael Zijlstra
Summary
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SeniorMichael Zijlstra is an Assistant Professor of Computer Science with 12 years of experience leading undergraduate CS education and running a full curriculum from programming to computer architecture. As head of the undergraduate program at Maharishi International University he blends academic leadership with hands-on enterprise web development using Spring and Hibernate. He has a strong background in course development and instructor roles, having created training materials and taught OOAD, design patterns, and Java persistence across industry and academic settings. Michael’s work bridges theory and practice—designing enterprise systems early in his career and now shaping the next generation of developers. Based in Leuven, he also brings an unusual combination of technical teaching and community-focused practice through prior work teaching Transcendental Meditation. He holds MS and BS degrees from Maharishi University of Management and consistently focuses on making complex software concepts accessible and applicable.
12 years of coding experience
Github Skills (14)
dos9
camera8
dosbox8
qr-code8
retrocomputing8
scanning8
x867
arm7
linux7
cpp7
windows6
javascript6
macos6
html4
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
mzijlstra/Linux-Trackman-Marble
May 2015 - Nov 2019
Contributions:3 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 7 months
mzijlstra/hlCursors
Dec 2017 - May 2020
Little program to create highlighted Xcursors versions for any Xcursor theme
Contributions:2 releases, 3 commits, 1 PR in 2 years 5 months
highlightedxcursor-themexcursor
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