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Niek van Dam

Excellence (Delta) Student, Software Developer, HBO-ICT Fontys Eindhoven

About Me

My name is Niek van Dam, I am a 20-year-old student from the Fontys Excellence course studying the software trajectory.

Before starting my study at Fontys, I studied software engineering on a vocational level for 3 years. The focus of this course was mainly on creating responsive web apps. Thankfully, my teachers let me take a deeper dive into algorithms and design patterns, after which I got interested in software engineering and competitive programming.

In the coming years, I would like to achieve greater knowledge of Artificial Intelligence and data science, as these are fields I could see myself working with in the future.
My goal for the this year is to take a deep-dive into Artificial Intelligence and recreate my first AI project: the tweet generator

Experience

GrendelGames

>Full stack developer

I got asked by a friend to help with a project for the Atlassian Codegeist Hackaton in the team for GrendelGames. The goal was to create an addon in which gamified the progress per sprint. More information can be found here

Gemeente Veere

Full stack developer

I was tasked with creating a small tool which gave insight into the tracking of assets (iPads, laptops, phones) within the city hall, so that system administrators had a general idea of who was using what asset.

Damen Schelde Naval Shipbuilding

Software intern

During my internship I wrote a closed-source calculation tool which was responsible for estimating the paint used per ship, based on an excel sheet. It could create basic paint schemes, export paint data to excel and recommend paint schemes in certain rooms

Education

Fontys University of Applied Sciences

Aug 2019 - July 2023

Bachelor of Science in Computer Science

Studying a bachelors in software engineering at Fontys. In my second semester I got elected to parttake in the Excellence (Delta) trajectory, which I am studying right now. Besides Delta I'm also following a specialization in Artificial Intelligence, where we are taught the basics of AI.

Coursera

September 2020

Machine Learning course

After working on some AI projects in my 3rd semester, I decided I had to increase my knowledge of Artificial Intelligence, in order to create better prototypes and deliveries per sprint. I am still working on this course, and am planning to have it done within the coming few months.

Scalda College voor Techniek en Design

Aug 2016 - July 2019

Vocational Level - Software engineering

At the time I was studying at Scalda, the course Software engineering was not that developed and relatively new, mostly working in project-based solutions. We were taught how to create basic OOP/CRUD applications in Java, as well as basics on how to apply MVC.

Projects

Digital Excellence (DeX)

A lot of employees and students of Fontys School of ICT (FHICT) create a lot of nice products. As a hobby, for their work or because of a school project. These can be software solutions, small scripts, research papers, thesis but possibly also project ideas and proposals for others to pick up. Unfortunately, most of them remain private and are not known by the majority of the population. The goal of the DeX-platform (short: DeX) is to make all this work more findable and thus improving collaboration.

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OpenRemote Wind Power Prediction

As wind power becomes more widely used, the demand for predicting wind power grows too. The goal of this project for OpenRemote was to create a prediction model which shows the predicted wind speed for the coming 5-7 days.

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Crypto Trading Bot (beta)

The moment I started investing in cryptocurrencies, I learnt of algorithmic trading. It has been a long-standing goal of me to create a well functioning and profitable trading bot. This was my public demo attempt from 2018, when I was just getting started.

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Collection of mini projects

This is a smaller collection of notable mini projects I have worked on throughout the years. This includes: Pathfinding, fractal visualizations, algorithms and more.

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Skills

  • Python
  • C#
  • Java
  • Go
  • Node.js
  • AngularJs
  • Javascript
  • Typescript
  • Git

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