available for interesting work

Sander Amelink.

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I've been building for the web since before React existed, and for the physical world since before I could afford a soldering iron that wasn't a fire hazard.

Thirteen years in, I care about three things: shipping, craft, and making the weird thing actually work.

When the laptop closes I'm either restoring a seventy-year-old lathe or debugging a breadboard with my kid on my lap.

Amsterdam, NL • 13+ yrs shipping • 1× exit • 4 solo products

> say hello

sander.ts — who.is TypeScript

1const me = {
2  name: "Sander Amelink",
3  age:
						38,
4  based: "Amsterdam, NL",
5  craft:
						new Set([
6    "frontend", "backend", "infra",
7    "product", "hardware"
8  ]),
9  loves: ["shipping", "lathes", "Arduinos"],
10  employers: 4 // incl. myself
11} as
						const;
12
13export default me;

cat ~/.config/sander.ts

about

Hi — I'm Sander.

I'm a solo full-stack developer living in Amsterdam with my family. I started writing software for money in 2012, and I haven't run out of questions yet.

I like boring technology, small teams, and being the one in the room who can follow a bug from a broken pixel in Safari all the way down to the server's syslog. I ship my own products and freelance for people whose work I respect.

Away from the keyboard I restore old machine tools — currently a 1954 Schaublin 102 — and build circuits that probably don't need to exist but do anyway.

↳ restoring old machine tools (currently: a 1954 Schaublin 102)↳ hardware hacking with Arduino and ESP32↳ reading boring books about manufacturing history↳ being a dad

     ___________
    /           \______
   |  o o o o o  |     |==
    \___________/------|

/dev/lathe — watching chips fly

pwdAmsterdam, NL
shell/bin/zsh
editorneovim
caffeinecappuchino, keep them coming

experience — git log --oneline --graph

sander@ame.link:~/career — git log

diff --git a/solo-/-independent b/solo-/-independent
Shipping side-products on nights, weekends and the good half of Tuesdays.
- + Designed, built, shipped and maintain credible.xyz, temporal.ist, gilded.photo and brackr.com end-to-end.
- + Own the full stack: infra, backend, frontend, design, billing, copy, support.
- + Every product is an excuse to learn one new thing on company time — my company, my time.
SvelteKitDjangoPostgresPythonTypeScriptCloudflareDocker
0000000 init — hello world, age 13, QBasic on a Pentium II ~1998

projects — ls -la ~/products

sander@ame.link:~/products$ ls -lah

perms owner size year name

total 4 projects • 147K shipped • 4/4 still online

skills — /proc/sander/caps

$ languages

TypeScriptPythonJavaScriptC++GoSQLBash

$ frontend

Svelte / SvelteKitVueReact (when I must)Plain CSSCanvasWebGL

$ backend

DjangoNodeBunPostgresRedisCeleryRESTGraphQL

$ infra

DockerLinuxCloudflareAWSNginxsystemdCI/CD

$ hardware

ArduinoESP32PCB layoutSolderingLathe/mill operationCNC conversion

$ other

Product designCopywritingSupportBillingOn-callKeeping shit running

terminal — /dev/tty0

sander@ame.link:~ — bash ⌃L clear • ⇥ complete • ↑↓ history

      __                    __         ______
     / /   ____  ____  ____/ /__  ____/ / __/
  __/ /   / __ \/ __ \/ __  / _ \/ __/ / /_
 /_  _/  / /_/ / / / / /_/ /  __/ /___/ __/
  /_/    \____/_/ /_/\__,_/\___/\____/_/

sander@ame.link — type "help" and press ⏎

contact — echo "$EMAIL"

Working on something interesting?

I'm open to freelance and consulting engagements, product collaborations, and — occasionally — full-time roles that feel right.

Reply time: usually within a day. Faster if there's an Arduino in the picture.

$ mail -s "hi" sander@ame.link ↵

contact.env

EMAIL= sander@ame.link 
WEBSITE= sander.ame.link 
LOCATION= Amsterdam, NL 
GITHUB= github.com/sendar0 