Jochem Kuijpers

Online Tech Programmer at Guerrilla

About me

Hi! My name is Jochem (he/him). Welcome to my website.

I work at Guerrilla as an Online Tech Programmer. Prior to this, I graduated as Computer Science & Engineering (MSc) at Eindhoven University of Technology.

If you want to get in touch, see my link page here.

Experience

You can find a timeline of my work experience and education below. Click or tap the cards to expand for more info. A condensed list is available on my LinkedIn profile.

My professional interests include game programming, software development, web technology, digital (internet) security, (graph) database systems and computer hardware.

present
2024
2023
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Horizon Forbidden West

Guerrilla

Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Credited on the Online Tech team.

2022
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Online Tech Programmer

Guerrilla

Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Working on an online multiplayer Horizon game.

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Path Indexing in the Cypher Query Pipeline

EDBT 2021

Nicosa, Cyprus (virtual conference)

Based on my Master's thesis at TU/e, this industrial track paper presented at EDBT 2021 summarizes the work done with Neo4j to bring path indexing to their industry-leading graph database. The full paper is published on Open Proceedings.

EDBT 2021 is the 24th International Conference on Extending Database Technology.

2021
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Junior Online Tech Programmer

Guerrilla

Amsterdam, The Netherlands

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volunteer

Community Moderator

Discord

I help moderate a Discord community of over 1000 members, providing and inclusive and welcoming space for people to hang out and play games together.

... And for some reason, discuss linguistics, like literally every day.

2020
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An Experimental Study of Context-Free Path Query Evaluation Methods

SSDBM'19

Santa Cruz, CA, USA

I presented an experimental study at SSDBM'19 based on my research internship at Neo4j in 2018. The full paper is published by ACM in their Digital Library.

SSDBM'19 is the 31st International Conference on Scientific and Statistical Database Management.

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Master's Thesis

Neo4j

Malmö, Sweden

I integrated a new type of index into the Neo4j query pipeline. This change affected the full query pipeline; query planning, query execution and transaction processing (index maintenance).

I also looked into which type of query and data patterns best benefited this type of index to speed up query performance and found some useful heuristics for finding use-cases that can be sped-up with this index.

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Research Internship Presentation

5th openCypher Implementers Meeting

Berlin, Germany

I presented a summary of the findings of my research internship at Neo4j in 2018 at the 5th openCypher Implementers Meeting.

2019
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Research Internship

Neo4j

Malmö, Sweden

An experimental study on querying recursive (context-free) path patterns in graph databases. I examined existing literature, built a prototype, ran experiments, evaluated performance and presented the results in a final report.

This internship was done with supervisors from both Neo4j and Eindhoven University of Technology.

This study was expanded and published in SSDBM'19 in July 2019.

2018
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education

MSc Computer Science & Engineering

Eindhoven University of Technology

Eindhoven, The Netherlands

Courses include:

  • Advanced, Geographic and Geometric Algorithms (three separate courses)
  • Database Technology
  • Data Engineering
  • Visualization
  • Simulation in Computer Graphics
  • Foundations of Data Mining

I graduated at the Database Group. My thesis project was completed in collaboration with Neo4j.

I received study credits for an internship abroad at Neo4j in Malmö, Sweden.

2017
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Front-end Programmer

Claimingo BV

Utrecht, The Netherlands

I helped this legal services start-up launch their product.

I built a responsive front-end website on modern web technologies using Angular/TypeScript and connected it to a backend system using a RESTful API.

I worked extensively with NPM, Docker, MariaDB/MySQL, PHP7, nginx and git.

The company does not exist anymore.

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Support Volunteer

Telegram Messenger LLP

I helped Telegram users with their questions regarding the app and platform. This included troubleshooting and triaging bug reports and feature requests, and escalating relevant issues to the appropriate internal teams.

I also suggested new ideas for the platform and made an early Android prototype for user-configurable themes, which led to the feature being implemented across all official apps.

2016
2015
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Freelance Programmer

SSL Examentraining Leiden

Leiden, The Netherlands

I maintained administrative tools (Delphi) and various websites (PHP) as a freelance programmer with a small team of other students. I also used MySQL and SVN.

The website has been re-designed since I have worked on it.

2014
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BSc Computer Science

Eindhoven University of Technology

Eindhoven, The Netherlands

Elective courses:

  • Computer Graphics
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Human Technology Interaction
  • Web Technology
  • Web Analytics

Minor in Security:

  • Legal and Technical aspects of IST
  • Algebra for Security
  • Introduction to Cryptology

My major is called Software Science and has emphasis on theoretical computer science and software engineering.

2013
2012
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Order picker

itsme (formerly: Ehrbecker Schiefelbusch / ES Electro)

Raamsdonksveer, The Netherlands

Full-time summer job for about 4-6 weeks each year, as an order picker in a semi-automated industrial electronics warehouse.

2011
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2008
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VWO NT (Pre-University Education)

Dongemond College

Raamsdonksveer, The Netherlands

Elective subjects:

  • Economics
  • Advanced Mathematics ('Wiskunde D')
2007

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