Wouter ten Brinke

Two-year master's programme in Embedded Systems covering wireless and vehicular networks, IoT from sensing to edge and cloud, computer vision, FPGA design, embedded optimization and real-time systems.

• Simulated how packet loss on an 802.11p control channel degrades mmWave V2X link scheduling, with the modeled control channel landing 4 to 14% below ideal delivery in throughput.
• Built a control loop that follows a moving ball, split across CPU and FPGA: camera and motor control logic in Verilog on the FPGA, PID and movement control on the CPU, linked by an SPI implementation written from scratch.
• Reproduced an Internet measurement study: an IPv4-wide scan found 14.8 million hosts on port 443, and TLS fingerprinting narrowed those to roughly 12,000 servers that large platforms run inside third-party networks.

Erasmus+ exchange semester in Computer Engineering and Robotics. Courses in Cloud Networking, 5G and IoT, Computer Vision, Real-Time Operating Systems and AR/VR.

• Developed a Linux kernel driver for a real-time task execution environment.
• Created an AI-driven interactive game in Unity using Convai.
• Set up automated deployment of a full monitoring and logging stack using Docker and Ansible.
• Achieved A1 level proficiency in Italian through a language course offered by the university.

Three-year programme combining theoretical computer science with practical engineering, covering the main areas of software engineering in both theory and practice.

• Applied theoretical concepts such as algorithms, operating systems and automata in practical assignments.
• Interdisciplinary team projects together with students from other technical programmes.
• Built a self-made programming language and compiler (ByteBender) as a course project.
• Bachelor thesis: FlexiTeX, a tool for structuring LaTeX projects.

Diploma

Thesis

Dutch pre-university secondary education (VWO), completed with a science profile.

• Completed the Science & Engineering and Science & Health subject tracks.
• Assignments for external companies through the Technasium track.
• Nominee for the (national) Technasium Top Awards 2019 with a project on converting a 1930s school building to be gas-free.
• Graduation project on harvesting energy from water flow in household systems (e.g., rainwater piping).

Diploma

Graduation project

Full-stack development in a large English-first team spread across several locations. Currently on Cool Check, an exam platform where students sit exams in an environment that teachers can monitor and that keeps them from using other sources when they are not allowed to.

• Worked on the two kiosk clients for Cool Check, which lock the device down during an exam: a Chrome app packaged as an Isolated Web App (IWA) in TypeScript and Angular, and a Windows application in C#.
• Backend development in Java for the exam platform behind those clients, and the Angular front end of the admin application.
• Instrumented background jobs and platform-wide tracing with OpenTelemetry on Microsoft Azure.
• Earlier: full-stack work on the Klasbord Ouderapp in ASP.NET, Angular and Xamarin, including the app-wide migration to MAUI after Xamarin's end-of-life. That app has since been retired.

Handled cash and card transactions at the checkout, helped customers on the shop floor, restocked shelves and did the daily opening and closing rounds.

Delivered local advertisements and newspapers every week in a fixed residential neighbourhood, along set routes.