Summary
Reinier Van Der Leer is a pragmatic Founding AI Engineer with 11 years of hands-on experience building full-stack and platform solutions that make advanced AI useful for everyday people. Based in Delft, he blends open-source enthusiasm with startup grit—joining AutoGPT as a volunteer maintainer and growing into a multi-role engineer handling frontend, backend, and DevOps. As a freelance software engineer he delivers practical, future-proof systems and has a track record of automating business processes, migrating stacks toward TypeScript, and hardening infrastructure. His background in electrical engineering and long-term involvement in student governance reflect a knack for organizing people and systems under real-world constraints. He enjoys puzzles and cross-disciplinary work, frequently solving messy integration problems where documentation or APIs are incomplete. That mix of pragmatic engineering, systems thinking, and community leadership makes him effective at turning ambitious AI ideas into reliable products.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Elementary school, Elementary school at Gomarusschool
High School, High School at Driestar College
BSc Electrical engineering, BSc Electrical engineering at Delft University of Technology
English, German, Dutch, Spanish