Hi. I'm Sander
If you've come here you're probably really motivated to know more about me.
Well, read on then - it'll be over in a jiffy.
Work
Despite appearances, I'm not a software engineer. I started out as one, but discovered other work can be just as rewarding1). Currently I earn my bread in roles like analyst and product owner.
Side projects
Writing software is still fun, though, so I do that in my spare time.
Text based modeling software, like MscGen (sequence charts) and Graphviz (networks) is awesome. Tooling to work with that software is either non-existant or klunky. I'm on a mission to change that:
- mscgen.js - a re-implementation of MscGen that makes it available on the web
- state machine cat - a language and accompanying tooling for writing beautiful state charts.
Randomly, I scratched an itch and wrote a thing to chart and police dependencies in TypeScript2) projects. Apparently I wasn't the only one having it; dependency-cruiser has been download over 14 million times in 20233).
GitHub is doing a decent job on showcasing my other side projects, so if you want to see them, hit over there.
Private life
I live in Holland. As does my girlfriend. Probably - I honestly don't know. I have never met her.
To the best of my knowledge I don't have any kids either.
Social media
Apart from GitHub, I have accounts on Mastodon and on LinkedIn (both checked at irregular intervals).
Made with in Holland.