Senior Software Engineer · Remote · CET, US overlap OK

I design systems and write the code behind them.

Building web products and the internal systems behind them since 2014, five years of that as a hands-on tech lead.

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Senior Software Engineer · Remote · CET, US overlap OK

I design systems and write the code behind them

and still review the PRs. and still dig into prod.

Building web products and the internal systems behind them since 2014, five years of that as a hands-on tech lead.

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After-hours rabbit holes Chess, web tools & whatever my Linux desktop is missing

Open to senior full-stack roles Based in the Netherlands · US overlap is fine

01 / THE LONGER STORY

When something is missing I build it: seven Omarchy desktop plugins because my own machine needed them, a chess coach because I wanted one, and at Leads.io a central API that ran for years with nobody thinking about it. Web products since 2014, five years of that leading teams and still writing the code. These days I work AI-first: Claude Code every day, and at AlisQI I built a document assistant on embeddings and role-scoped retrieval.

Before Linux pulled me into programming, I studied counterpoint at the conservatory in Alkmaar. Piano Sonata No. 2

and still run the CLI.
and still chase weird bugs.

Web & product work

Selected work.

Public products, internal systems, and one open source project that still gets attention. Ordered for the hiring conversation, not by chronology.

01 AI chess coach / Vue.js

Chess Console

I wanted chess analysis to explain itself instead of only showing a better move. Chess Console combines Stockfish with AI explanations: draw a move and the engine's line appears as numbered arrows, and every move in the coach's answer shows its position on hover. Your games add up to a player profile with an estimated rating and the mistakes that keep coming back.

Vue.jsStockfishAI coachingPlayer profile

Visit Chess Console

02 Open source credential / Laravel

Laravel Schematics

I built it to draw Eloquent models and relationships instead of keeping the whole schema in my head. Featured by Laravel News; passed 1,400 GitHub stars.

Laravel1.4k+ GitHub starsNo longer maintained

View on GitHub Laravel News feature

03 Agent-first CLI / Node

Omakit

Tested plumbing, the marketplace's own checks, and a disposable Omarchy to test in.

CLI Node 22+ Zero dependencies

GitHub npm

04 Open source package / Laravel

c-point-labs/laravel-hostyourai

An open source Laravel package for HostYourAI's chat and decision API. It powers the "Ask about me" box on this site.

LaravelOpen source

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Merged upstream Laravel Self-Diagnosis / Beyond Code Added detection for undefined environment variables referenced through env() and getenv(), including tests and English/German translations. PR #84

Merged upstream Lerd / lerd-env While building Rustyard, a Rust-first local workflow on top of Lerd, I filed and fixed four issues upstream: dev servers now find rustup, mise, asdf and go.dev toolchains; host-proxy dev servers bind Lerd's own lerd0 link instead of the Wi-Fi address, so they start at boot and stay local; long-running plugin commands no longer grow Lerd's memory; and a plugin can declare which exit codes are its answer rather than a failure. Rustyard 4 merged PRs

C-Point Labs / independent software

Software for the details that matter.

C-Point Labs is the independent software side of my work, with Chess Console and Punctum in the lab.

Explore C-Point Labs See Chess Console See Punctum

C-POINT / COUNTERPOINT

C-POINT LABS

Experience

What I've been doing since 2014.

The job grew from backend development into technical leadership. I led two teams, made the technical calls, and kept working in the codebase. Managing from a distance has never appealed to me.

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2026

AlisQI

Senior Full Stack Developer

Netherlands, remote · quality-management SaaS

Built a document assistant: factories upload their own documents, which are embedded into a vector store, and questions are answered with prompts scoped to the documents a user's role is allowed to see.
Improved query and database performance in the customer dashboard, cutting memory use and response times.
Restructured the "Solvers" feature set into scoped modules with explicit access rules, paired with a colleague.

2021 - 2026

Leads.io (formerly Social Blue)

Technical Lead, Social Blue / Lead Software Development Engineer, Leads.io

Hoorn, Netherlands · performance-marketing group: 11 offices, 9 countries, ~240 people after the 2022 merger

Led two teams (Client Portal: 5 engineers; Finance/Count: 3) in an engineering department of ~20, while writing production code throughout.
Co-designed and built the event-driven central API connecting the company's seven internal services (client portal, finance, lead collection, landing-page builder, lead marketplace, revenue tracking, NetSuite). Owned idempotency, sync/async boundaries and data corrections. Ran for years without needing attention.
Replaced live BigQuery queries in client reporting with hourly, client-scoped cached JSON: report load time from ~27 s to ~250 ms for 100+ clients, and no cross-client data exposure through reporting queries.
Rewrote the monthly lead-approval flow in the client portal (clients review and reject delivered leads). From the most unstable system in the department to no incidents in its final year.
Built the Oracle NetSuite integration (invoicing, multi-currency lead bundles, customer management) as a reusable Eloquent-style module; the team shipped features and resolved tickets faster against one consistent interface.

2018 - 2020

Social Blue

Back-end Developer

Hoorn, Netherlands

Built "Count", the in-house finance system (invoicing, lead bundles, currency conversion, customer records), later partly superseded by the NetSuite integration above.
Developed the client portal and shared APIs as the company expanded internationally.

2016 - 2017

Betty Blocks

Software Developer / Full-stack Developer

Obdam, Netherlands · low-code platform startup

Product engineering on a drag-and-drop application builder; worked through the migration from Ruby to Elixir/Phoenix.

Earlier career 2015 - 2016

Code24 Software Developer, 2016 Enhanced features for mConsole, a medical web application, using Zend and ExtJS/Sencha.

Quickwins Nederland Software Developer, 2015 - 2016 Built client measurement applications using Cordova for iPad installations deployed nationwide; moved from Java/Android into PHP, JavaScript and Laravel.

Signature chapter / Omarchy

I fix my own Linux desktop in public.

I use Omarchy every day, so I build the pieces I miss (theme switching, disk insight, on-screen keyboard) and publish them. These are the plugins I've shipped so far.

Built for my own desktop 08 marketplace plugins QML + Quickshell Synced every 5 minutes

Marketplace listing Overlay / Desktop

Fathom

A depth-based Alt-Tab: every window recedes into the distance by how long ago you last used it. Hold Alt, dive with Tab, release to focus.

Marketplace Source

Marketplace listing Overlay / Appearance

Omarchy Theme Manager

I built this because changing an Omarchy theme meant jumping between tools. It puts themes and Aether-backed wallpapers in one full-screen picker.

Marketplace Source

Verified Bar widget / Productivity

Omarchy News Radar

A keyboard-first front page for meaningful Omarchy activity.

Marketplace Source

Verified Bar widget / System

Omarchy Disk Lens

I wanted to see what was filling my disk without reaching for another terminal command. Disk Lens shows the large branches first and moves files to Trash instead of deleting them.

Marketplace Source

Bar widget / Hardware Omarchy On-Screen Keyboard Bar widget / System Sidecar Bar / Desktop Omacrunch Bar widget / Developer Tools Ampere Omarchy Plugin Marketplace View all plugins by Maarten Tolhuijs

How I work

What tends to show up.

Whether I'm leading a team, shipping a product, or publishing a Linux plugin for my own machine.

Stay close to the code

I set technical direction and still write and review. Mentoring without disappearing into meetings.

From UI to the ugly bits

APIs, finance flows, client portals, and the integrations a business leans on when nobody is watching.

Publish what I use

Open source tools and Omarchy plugins for my own desktop. If something is missing, I build it and put it out.

Beyond the demo

Production debugging, CI, and disposable VMs when a change can hit a real desktop, not a one-shot walkthrough.

$ gh repo list mtolhuys QML / Shell / JavaScript / Python / PHP / Vue / Blade / Java

Stack PHPLaravelPythonSQLJavaScriptTypeScriptVue.jsReactBladeCSSViteQMLQuickshellBashLinuxHyprlandTailscaleKubernetesCI

AI workflow Claude Code dailyagent-first tooling (Omakit)LLM integration (Chess Console)

Earlier Elixir / PhoenixRubyJavaCordovaZendExtJS / Sencha

This was not the original plan.

Before software

I studied classical composition.

Before I wrote software, I wrote music: counterpoint and composition at the conservatory in Alkmaar.

Curiosity about Linux pulled me into programming. Java came first, then PHP and JavaScript. I did not plan the career change; it just stuck.

Composed + played / 2009 Piano Sonata No. 2 in C minor Three movements ↗ Independent software at C-Point Labs

Contact

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I'm looking for senior full-stack product-engineering roles. Based in the Netherlands, remote friendly, US overlap welcome. The CV has the longer timeline.

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