My name is Yannick and I’m living in The Netherlands. In my free time I like to tinker behind my computer working on open source projects, try to climb a challenging boulder in the climbing gym or hit a “Por Tres” (X3) on the padel court. Lately, I’ve been enjoying myself trying to solve competitive programming problems on Codeforces.

Previously, I ran a startup called Orchest where we built an open-source workflow scheduler similar to Apache Airflow. We’d been building Orchest and offering it as a managed cloud service for three years before deciding to return the capital to our investors (Gradient Ventures, Basis Set Ventures, Seedcamp, Script Capital, Data Community Fund and angels like Anthony Goldbloom). We ended up returning about $2M of the $4.15M we raised, including the sale of some of the developed IP which was a 5-figure deal. Those past years were filled with tons of learnings, but as the market had become too commoditized in our opinion we didn’t see a way forward.

If you want to reach out to me, please send me an email.

Projects Link to heading

• Orchest (4K+ GitHub stars ⭐) - A platform (on Kubernetes) to build, schedule and monitor workflows.

• bookmarkdown (17 ⭐) - Parse your browser’s exported HTML bookmark file to Markdown.

• huffman-coding - The fastest Python implementation of Huffman coding by using a Finite State Machine to instantly decode bytes (instead of decoding bit by bit).

• introselect - The introselect selection algorithm developed by David R. Musser.

• aioreq - Asynchronously make GET requests using only Python’s asyncio

Work experience Link to heading

Please see my resume.