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I started coding when I was 14, with a complicated course in C I could not manage at that time. So I moved to Python, and that's how I got into the Informatics Olympiads. By the time I was 17, I was fluent in C, and especially in competitive coding: I've won municipal Olympiads and scored a Mention at the National Olympiad. From there, I went to pursue my passion at university.

Along the way I taught myself the web the practical way: some PHP and freelance WordPress plugins at first, then an extended JavaScript course I paid for with freelance savings. Later I got curious about the world beyond the browser, picking up back-end good practices (Java Spring, Express.js) and even Arduino electronics, one of which ended up in daily use at my mother's workplace.

That passion took me to the University of Maastricht, where I earned my BSc in Computer Science (class of 2026). I got my first taste of production software early, a full-stack internship at Next Generation Sensors in my very first year, building RESTful APIs with Java Spring on PostgreSQL and shipping a responsive Angular.js front end inside a real Agile team.

In January 2025 I founded OrchEcomm, a modular operating system for online stores. It now runs 6 fully working modules with 3 more in beta, connecting 30 e-commerce businesses and 50+ suppliers while orchestrating 3.000+ orders every month. Although I consider education very important, I've decided that for now I want to focus on developing OrchEcomm and gain as much experience from it as I can.

The researcher in me got its outlet in my BSc thesis: Temporal Semantic Proximity Analysis (TSPA), a method for detecting coordinated information operations on social media. It processes up to 500k tweets per campaign through multilingual sentence embeddings and Leiden community detection, surfacing coordinated communities with IO purities of up to 100%, and it taught me that at scale, cosine similarity is a memory problem before it's a math problem.