Olaf Janssen
Geldrop, North Brabant, Netherlands
Summary
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SeniorOlaf Janssen is a software-minded co-founder and educator with 12 years of experience translating ambitious ideas into working products, blending a strong foundation in physics and mathematics with practical software and game development. Based in Eindhoven, he has led curriculum and program innovation at Fontys Hogeschool ICT—boosting student entrepreneurship, founding Dogfood Studios, and delivering award-winning student projects—while teaching and researching in AI, interaction design, and embedded systems. He is hands-on across the stack: from C++ high-performance FDTD simulators developed during a PhD in computational nanophotonics to responsive HTML5 game clients and scalable server architectures using CQRS principles. Colleagues value his Daoist leadership style—leading by stepping back—to cultivate inclusive, high-performing teams and learning environments. An inventor at heart, he also runs Awoken Well, a consulting and product studio that surfaces creative tooling for apps, games and data-driven experiences.
12 years of coding experience
Github Skills (19)
proximity-sensor10
cordova-plugin10
rust9
url-validation6
email-validation4
javascript2
python2
science2
html2
stochastic1
deep-q-learning1
temporal-difference1
reinforcement-learning1
deterministic1
racing1
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
olafjanssen/digitaldummy
Dec 2015 - Sep 2017
Contributions:1 PR, 57 pushes, 3 branches in 1 year 9 months
canvasjavascriptsnapshot
olafjanssen/sitelen-sitelen-renderer
Dec 2015 - Sep 2020
Rust-based library to turn Toki Pona text into the Sitelen Sitelen non-linear writing style.
Contributions:2 releases, 156 commits, 142 pushes in 4 years 9 months
rust
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