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Chris Wijnia

Dutch engineer and co-founder.

Origin
Netherlands
Work
Product / R&D
Fig. 1 · Atkinson, 1 bit per pixelRes 264×264 · 69,696 bits

I’ve been making things on computers for most of my life.

I grew up in the Netherlands and built my first websites at thirteen.

I like small teams, ambitious projects, good engineering and people who can disagree without making it tedious. I still enjoy opening an empty repository and figuring something out.

I work internationally. Outside work I train Muay Thai and like chess, which I played competitively in Zwolle and taught to primary-school children there. I also build things that occasionally have no sensible commercial purpose.

Fig. 2 · Atkinson, 1 bit per pixelRes 264×176 · 46,464 bits

Moving down the stack as the web evolved.

The same portrait, from 4×4 bits to every bit.

  1. 2005DesignLearning the web by making things.
  2. 2013ProductDesign became code.
  3. —EngineeringCode became systems.
  4. 2018WalletsSoftware for a new kind of money.
  5. 2021Financial infraBuilding systems where software meets regulation.
  6. 2022AIFrom using models to orchestrating them.
  7. NowBuildingAll of it, at once.

[1] Back to one bit

Building something where a wrong answer costs money, or where a machine’s answer has to be trusted? Tell me in a line. I will answer in more than one bit.

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