Tijs Zwinkels
Company Owner at TinkerTank
The Hague, South Holland, Netherlands
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Top SchoolTijs Zwinkels is a seasoned full-stack software engineer and founder with 16+ years turning research-grade algorithms into production systems, currently building novel AI interfaces and continual learning for agents at ConverseAI. He combines deep academic training in AI with hands-on experience across high-availability telephony, large-scale location analytics, and production ML tooling, having led architecture and migrations from monoliths to microservices. An active open-source contributor, he implemented token-tracking, prompt caching, and context enhancements for the popular Continue AI code-assistant and integrated distributed image generation into Blender tooling. His background spans roles at Meta, Rijkswaterstaat, and startups where he solved noisy, real-world inference problems—such as clustering intermittent Wi‑Fi device traces to estimate human presence. Comfortable across backend, frontend, and DevOps, he’s equally at home specifying real-time APIs as he is prototyping experiments from scientific papers into reliable shipping code. Colleagues rely on him for pragmatic, research-led engineering that bridges prototypes to production.
16 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
B.Sc. Information Technology, B.Sc. Information Technology at Avans University of Applied SciencesM.Sc. Artificial Intelligence, M.Sc. Artificial Intelligence at Rijksuniversiteit GroningenPropaedeutic year Electrical Engineering, Propaedeutic year Electrical Engineering at University of 's Hertogenbosch
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Github Skills (25)
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addin10
chatgpt10
python10
stable-diffusion10
llm10
api10
ai10
http-request10
developer-tools10
react10
addon10
javascript9
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Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
benrugg/AI-Render
Nov 2022 - Jan 2023
Stable Diffusion in Blender
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:8 commits, 3 PRs, 8 comments in 2 months
Contributions summary:Tijs primarily contributed to integrating Stable Horde, a distributed computing platform, into the Blender add-on. Their work involved creating API interactions to generate images using Stable Horde, handling responses, and managing image retrieval. Key modifications focused on adapting the add-on's back-end to utilize the asynchronous API of Stable Horde, along with addressing related error handling and timeout issues. They also made updates to the API calls, response processing, and error handling related to image retrieval from cloud storage.
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continuedev/continue
May 2024 - Sep 2024
⏩ Continue is the leading open-source AI code assistant. You can connect any models and any context to build custom autocomplete and chat experiences inside VS Code and JetBrains
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:2 reviews, 4 PRs, 5 comments in 4 months
Contributions summary:Tijs significantly contributed to the project by implementing features related to token tracking and usage visualization within the Continue IDE. This involved modifying the backend database schema to store prompt and generated token counts. The user also updated the frontend to display token usage data, incorporating changes to React components and webview communication. Moreover, they refactored code, added full project file paths to the LLM context, and added prompt caching for Anthropic LLMs.
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