My name is Kaj and I’m a student at KdG in Antwerp (Belgium). I love creating websites, software and other technological stuff.

I started tinkering with computers and games at a young age. I was really into Stop motion and used my Lego and action figures to create my own “movies”.

My developer journey started when I downloaded the Unity Engine, that was around 2017 or 2018. I didn’t understand a thing about programming but I was immediately hooked.

Fast forward to 2021. By then I had created several prototypes and even joined a few Game Jams.

That was when I first learned about web development. I built the first version of my portfolio using vanilla HTML + Bootstrap and hosted it on the niceduckdev.xyz domain.

I started experimenting with static sites and eventually learned PHP to use it in my last year of high school.

I started hearing good things about Javascript frameworks so I decided to create a website for my Chiro using NextJS and Chakra UI.

I didn’t really understand the use case of SPAs so I created all my websites using the most overkill tool for the job.

After watching a youtube video about VueJS I was really interested. I rewrote all of my websites using VueJS and Tailwind.

You can read more about the website for my Chiro on this page.

By this time I had some experience using C# by working with the Unity Engine and planning the architecture of my projects.

In September of 2023 I started studying at KdG in Antwerp.

We started learning about the Java and basic Object oriented programming.

The first few weeks were quite boring due to the slow start. The requirement to take exams with pen and paper didn’t make it any easier.

You can read more about my first projects at KdG on this page and this page.

In the first semester of my second year at KdG I created a blog using VueJS and Pocketbase.

You can read more on this page.

In the second semester I got the largest assignment that I had ever worked on.

You can read more on this page.

Now that I am in my third and last year at KdG I got two large assignments to work on during the first period (1/2 of a semester).

One of these explores the concept of microservices using Java and Spring Boot.

The other project is an application to manage a smart home that uses React (and Pocketbase).

Right now I am searching for a company where I can do an internship in the last period of this year.

I am really interested in going to a Scandinavian country. Please send me a mail at [email protected] if you have any connections, interest or ideas.