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Hi, my name is Pieter Joost van de Sande and I’m a software engineer for almost a decade.
I'm currently employed by wercker, a startup based in Amsterdam. We are building an integral software delivery platform in the cloud. At wercker I mainly write Javascript, Python, Go and Bash Script. Next to writing code I'm responsible for community engagement. Previously I was a thought leader at atos, one of worlds leading international information technology services companies. I received the Atos TRP award which made me a distinguished member of technical staff.
Next to the employment I play an active role in the software development community. I've presented at conferences like Microsoft TechDays, Software Development Conference and NDC. Beside speaking I'm also a frequent visitor of smaller meetups. I'm a board member at Devnology where I help to organise meetings and run a software development podcast. My active role in the community is recognised by Microsoft who awarded me with the exclusive Microsoft MVP award.
I'm also active in the software development community. I've contributed to various open source projects like, Bundler, ncqrs, node-auth, ssh-keygen, Neo4jClient, EventStore and many more. As you can see at my Github profile the contributions are not bound to a specific programming language. I like to explore different languages and paradigms. I count C# as one of worlds most beautiful programming languages, but you also find me writing Javascript, Python, Ruby Smalltalk and Go.
To clear my head and recharge my batteries I run. I prefer the trails and when the surface allows I run barefoot. If not, I run in Luna Sandals.
If you have any questions, comments, or would just like to say hello, please don't hesitate to drop me a tweet.
The reason this website looks awesome is David Ensinger. I used his site design as a foundation for this one. I develop mainly on a MacBook Pro (can't live without a retina display anymore). Sublime Text 2 is my primarily editor. Type is set in Open Sans, which is served by Google Web Fonts. Posts are composed in Markdown which I write in Mou or Sublime Text and syntax is highlighted with Pygments.
The site is generated with Jekyll and hosted on Amazone S3. The process to generation and deployment is automated with wercker.
The source code is hosted at github in the repository pjvds/born2code. You are free to fork or steel anything you find useful.
A number of supporting plugins and code snippets for Jekyll are used with the site:
- Jekyll Templates for Atom, RSS by Dave Coyle
- Open Graph for Jekyll by Pat Hawks
- Paginate Like a Boss by Terry Schmidt
- Jekyll: Category and Tag Paging and Feeds by R.J. Lorimer
- sitemap.xml by Toni Uebernickel
A couple Sass mixins proved integral to the scaffolding of the site: