Software engineer
About
Computer Science graduate from the Vrije Universiteit. I wrote my first program in 2013, and I have been building with language models since the GPT‑3 API, well before ChatGPT made them a household name. I learn fastest when I am dropped into something unfamiliar, which is exactly why moving between projects and teams sounds like the right first job to me. I am curious and talkative, and happy to jump into whatever comes next. I like debugging, and I like the part afterwards where a thing slowly stops being annoying to use.
Read by Mimic, not by me. It learned my voice from one paragraph, on my own laptop.
Selected work
Mimic
Read one paragraph aloud, and it will say anything you type in your own voice. A web app, a Mac app, and an iPhone app that does the whole thing on the phone, with no network at all.
Every word of this was spoken by a model running on my own laptop, in a voice it learned from fifteen seconds of me reading a paragraph aloud.
Mimic, in David's voice
LyricStats
A quarterly statistical review of popular lyrics
Issue 01 · The feature
Two rappers, two decades, 492 songs. We counted every word they have ever released to find out what the monster is made of.
Harness
OpenVision
Perimeter
HomeTrack
Nearly every project here started in a language or stack I had not used before, from Scala and x86 assembly to Swift and on-device machine learning.
Debated and defended resolutions in international committees of 100+ at the European Youth Parliament, and defended my bachelor thesis in front of its examiners.
Wrote my thesis jointly with two other students, tracked our shared experiment, and merged our three cases into one paper.
Usually the person in a project group who ends up explaining the assignment to everyone else, and I enjoy that part.
Reads the new papers and tries the new models as they come out. Friends and coursemates tend to ask me what changed this week.
Four years of evening and weekend deliveries alongside a full-time degree, finished with an 8.0 average.