Hi! My name is Jochem (he/him).
I'm a Dutch Computer Science & Engineering Master's student. I'm technically-minded, slightly perfectionistic and enthausiastic about video games and other creative media.
My professional interests include game programming, software development, web technology, digital (internet) security, (graph) database systems and computer hardware.
You can find a timeline of my work experience and education below. Click or tap the cards to expand.
If you prefer to see this information as a concise list, please refer to my LinkedIn profile.
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An Experimental Study of Context-Free Path Query Evaluation Methods
Santa Cruz, CA, USA
July 2019
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 and can downloaded here.
SSDBM'19 is the 31st International Conference on Scientific and Statistical Database Management.
Research Internship Presentation
5th openCypher Implementers Meeting
Berlin, Germany
March 2019
I presented a summary of the findings of my research internship at Neo4j in 2018 at the 5th openCypher Implementers Meeting. This event was co-hosted with the W3C Workshop on Web Standardization for Graph Data.
Research Internship
Malmö, Sweden
August – November 2018 3m
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 by myself with supervisors from both Neo4j and Eindhoven University of Technology.
MSc Computer Science & Engineering
Eindhoven University of Technology
Eindhoven, The Netherlands
September 2017 – present 2y, 1m
Software Science track.
During this study programme, I participated in an internship abroad at Neo4j in Malmö, Sweden, where I'm also writing my Master's thesis.
Graduating at the Database Group.
Front-end Programmer
Utrecht, The Netherlands
October 2016 – September 2017 1y
I held the position of a part-time front-end programmer in a small developer team. We built and maintained a client-facing website for this start-up in legal and financial services.
My responsibility was implementing the features and design ideas created by the team in a responsive front-end website, which communicates with a custom back-end system that handles client data.
Used technologies include HTML5, LESS, Angular, NPM, Typescript, Docker, MariaDB / MySQL, PHP 7 (Composer) and git.
Support Volunteer
March 2016 – December 2018 2y, 10m
I helped Telegram users with their questions regarding the app and platform. This included troubleshooting and triaging bug reports and feature requests, escalated relevant issues to the appropriate internal teams.
Besides these tasks, 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.
Freelance Programmer
Leiden, The Netherlands
April 2014 – September 2016 2y, 6m
I maintained administrative tools and various websites as a freelance part-time job with a small team of other students based on the ideas and needs of the company.
I worked with PHP, MySQL and Delphi, as well as SVN and an issue tracking system.
BSc Computer Science
Eindhoven University of Technology
Eindhoven, The Netherlands
September 2013 – August 2017 4y
Software Science track.
Major courses included Operating Systems, Algorithms, Software Engineering, 'Datamodeling and Databases', and 'Computer Networks and Security'.
Elective courses included Computer Graphics, Artificial Intelligence and Web Technology.
Minor Cryptology and Security.
The graduation project was a software engineering assignment with a scrum team of several other students. We built a server-based application for collecting results from remote, sensor-equipped Raspberry Pis to aid a PhD student in his research.
Order picker
Ehrbecker Schiefelbusch (ES Elektro)
Raamsdonksveer, The Netherlands
June 2011 – August 2013 2y, 3m
Full-time summer job for about 6 weeks per year as an order picker in a semi-automated industrial electronics warehouse. My tasks also included cleaning, counting stock and handling new stock.
VWO NT (Pre-University Education)
Raamsdonksveer, The Netherlands
August 2007 – June 2013 6y
Elective subjects: Economics and Advanced Mathematics ('Wiskunde D').
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