Off-hours: wine, music, and long routes.

A separate space for the parts that make the technical profile feel like a person — not distractions, but evidence of curiosity, patience, and the kind of attention that transfers back to the work.

Wine

Natural wine notes

I work wine service at a natural wine bar in Amsterdam. Short, specific notes on producers, regions, and the small details that make a bottle memorable. Currently obsessed with orange wines from Georgia and pét-nats from the Loire.

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Camino Francés

~900km on foot · 2026

Walked the Camino Francés in spring 2026 — Saint-Jean-Pied-de-Port to Santiago, then onward to Fisterra and Muxía. A month-long reset: simple routines, long days, shared meals, and the strange clarity that appears when life fits in one backpack.

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A SHORTER LIST

Other things I'm into

Languages

Native Dutch, fluent English, B2 French, conversational Portuguese, and beginner attempts at German and Esperanto. The languages aren't the point — paying close attention to how people communicate is.

Self-hosting

Running my own little corner of the internet from a server in my apartment. Minecraft, this website, and whatever else I'm experimenting with. The opposite of cloud convenience — and that's the appeal.

Teaching, still

I taught physics for a while and the instinct hasn't left. I still find a way to explain things — to friends at the bar, to whoever asks at a dinner party, occasionally to a confused homelab visitor.