Hi, I'm Kevin De Baerdemaeker
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The long version
I'm a 90s kid who grew up in Belgium. I remember playing Paper Boy on the Commodore 64 when I was a kid, and gaming has always been a part of my life. Aside from being glued to a screen, I've spent too much time playing with Legos and loved football.
I never thought I'd become a programmer, let alone understand how the games I played were made. Then a robotics class in Ghent tricked me into coding, and I fell down the web rabbit hole: HTML, CSS, JavaScript, TypeScript, Node.js, the works.
I spent about five years building websites and web apps for folks like Freebility, Famoco and Epic Games. These days I live in Finland and work as a senior software developer in the games division at Netflix. Turns out I get to help make them now. I like being all over the stack, from pixel pushing to making it go fast, and keeping it all as simple as I can get away with.
My brain is chaotic, which is pretty much why this site exists. The polished bits end up in my writing, the messy ones get dumped in my notes and the shiny toys land in the lab. Lately that's three.js, Godot and plain old C, plus slowly teaching myself the math I never quite got the first time around.
Away from the keyboard I'm usually out mountain biking, daydreaming about turning a van into a home on wheels, or taking photos with my Fujifilm. The ones I'm proud of end up on kevinthebard.com.