Hi, I'm Joost Rijneveld. I'm a Computer Science student in Nijmegen (the Netherlands), and a freelance web developer when time permits. As far back as I can remember I've been a logics and mathematics enthousiast, and I'm always in for a puzzle - things like Dropquest and Google CodeJam can easily get me hooked for a few hours. Furthermore I'm politically engaged (progressive left-wing) and addicted to news feeds on any subject of my interest - lately including IT security ever more often.

I've been coding since highschool, allowing me to build up several years worth of experience in various web environments. I have build up an elaborate all-round background in HTML, CSS and Javascript (having dealt with AJAX and jQuery applications in the past) as well as serversided programming in PHP and MySQL. The last couple of years my predominant source of freelance work has been Flash development, focussing mainly on Actionscript 3. Besides various freelance projects I have also build up a portfolio of stock Flash files over at ActiveDen.

Over the last two years I've gotten more into more low-level algorithmic programming rather than the front-end web-UI stuff, as this has been a focus in the Computer Science curriculum. I've build up experience in Java and C++, as well as a bit of functional programming and Python (which is more of a hobby on the side). Above all, this has allowed me to develop a general-purpose algorithmic skillset which always comes in handy (not in the last place in competitions like GCJ). Recently I've taken up using the Qt framework for cross-platform application development. Check out my Github page as well.

During highschool I followed several subjects in English as part of a bilingual education program, ultimating in an International Baccalaureate A2 diploma on Higher Level and cum laude graduation. At the moment I'm enrolled in the third year of the Bachelor curriculum of Computer Science at the Radboud University in Nijmegen, the Netherlands. Additionally, I'm a teaching assistent (TA) for two first year programming courses.

Over the past couple years I've worked both as a freelance (web) developer on a project-by-project basis as well as developing Flash files for stock sale on ActiveDen, an Envato marketplace. A while ago I've taken up the task of volunteering as a community moderator on the Envato forums as well.

In case you have something to tell or ask me; don't hesitate to get in touch! You can always reach me on Twitter, on Facebook and via email - I'll try to reply as soon as possible. Keep in mind that my local time is UTC.