Kreative Kompas
Kees Rodriguez

Founder of Kreative Kompas

Kees Rodriguez

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Fullstack developer with more than nine years across government, banking, low-code and consultancy, who builds scalable, fault-tolerant systems by day and firmware, game engines and a fully self-hosted company by night. Curious, positive and goal-oriented: challenges are opportunities.

Den Bosch, the Netherlands 9+ years Spanish (native) · Dutch (native) · English (native)
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Also in Nederlands and Español.

Experience

  1. Java Software Developer · Immigration and Naturalisation Service (IND)

    Built Nexus, the new mission-critical immigration system: event-driven microservices with Axon and Apache Kafka, CQRS and event sourcing, turning complex legal processes into fault-tolerant, scalable software.

    JavaAxonKafkaCQRSEvent SourcingDDD

  2. Fullstack Developer · SNS Bank

    DevOps team for investing, savings and lending. Frontend and backend of financial services with Spring Boot microservices and REST APIs, in a heavily regulated, transaction-driven environment.

    JavaSpring BootMicroservicesCI/CDSecurity

  3. Solution Engineer · Novulo

    Designed reusable components for the Novulo low-code platform, combining business process analysis with development to make clients' operations more efficient.

    Low-codeProcess analysisComponents

  4. Junior .NET Developer · Van der Lelie

    Modernised a Delphi legacy system into an Angular and .NET web application, migrating MySQL, MSSQL and Paradox data into one performant platform.

    .NETAngularDatabase migration

  5. Project Delivery Specialist · Insphire International

    Implemented rental-industry software for clients, tailoring logistics, invoicing and contract management to each business.

    ConsultancyStakeholder managementDelivery

  6. Telematics Engineering (Bachelor, all coursework up to the final year) · Pontificia Universidad Católica Madre y Maestra

    Electronics, computer science and telecommunications, from hardware interfaces to network protocols and embedded software.

Skills & tools

From Kafka in a government system to firmware on a keyboard, and the server this site runs on.

Languages

JavaCC++17PythonJavaScript / TypeScriptC#SQLLua

Backend & architecture

Spring BootAxonApache KafkaMicroservicesCQRS / Event SourcingREST & AsyncAPI

Embedded & desktop

ESP32ArduinoZephyr RTOSZMKQt 6GStreamerCMake

Infrastructure

Linux administrationDocker & ComposeNetworking & DNSReverse proxies & TLSSSO with KeycloakLVMNFS & Samba

Web

AngularNode.jsElectronHugoMedusa

AI

Local LLMsOpenVINOSpeech recognitionImage generationRAG

Projects

Open-source work, from a game engine down to a keyboard.

Kreative Kompas Engine

A modular open-source Vulkan game engine in C++17 with Lua scripting.

C++17VulkanLua

Broadcast Box (fork)

Sub-second WebRTC streaming, extended with our own features.

GoWebRTCTypeScript

ZMK Sofle Dongle & Config

Firmware for a wireless split keyboard on a Nice!Nano with Zephyr RTOS and BLE.

CZephyrBLE

Qt Screen Caster

Low-latency cross-platform screen capture and UDP/RTP streaming with Qt 6 and GStreamer.

C++QtGStreamer

Voice Translator

Real-time speech translation with local AI models, packaged in Docker.

PythonVoskLLM

Discord AI Bot

Discord bots with LLM chat and image generation.

PythonDiscord APIAI

Nohboard-qt

An on-screen keyboard overlay for gaming and streaming.

C++Qt

SRT Translator

Batch translation of subtitle files through an API.

PythonAPI

Let's work together

For projects, collaborations or a job, I'd love to hear from you.

info@kreative-kompas.com LinkedIn GitHub

Interests: Game development · Self-hosting · 3D printing · Kickboxing & the gym · Local AI