Self-hosted AI,end to end.
I'm Gijsbert. An NVIDIA-certified AI engineer in the Netherlands. I deploy LLMs on your GPUs, build the cluster they run on, and write the apps that use them. Self-taught, hands-on the whole way.
Not your model,
not your knowledge.
If you don't own the model, you don't own the knowledge.

The setup behind
the work.
Recent work
Open source I maintain, client work I'm engaged on, and the side experiments I keep building.
Freelance Forward Deployment Engineer at Gaide
Building AI deployments and PII-aware LLM tooling for Dutch enterprises.
Side experiments & hackathons
Where I prototype the wild stuffVibe AR
HackathonVibe-coding in mixed reality on a Meta Quest 3. Built in 24h at the Mistral AI Worldwide Hackathon Paris. Top-7 finalist.
MCP Infra Agent
HackathonMCP server that creates VMs and deploys Docker containers from any GitHub repo, in natural language. Mistral AI MCP Hackathon, Paris.
Mistral AI Ambassador · NVIDIA GTC ′25 & ′26 · KubeCon · TalosCon · Mistral hackathon finalist
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