Mathias Kools

Software Engineer

Hi, my name is Mathias Kools. I am a Belgian-American 🇧🇪🇺🇸 from the Boston area.

Resume

If I didn’t have to squish my resume onto a single page, this is what it’d look like.

Education

(0) I’m also proud to be an alum of First Robotics Competition team 4761. My most significant roles were programmer and business president (fundraising).

Technologies

I’ve been programming for about a decade.

(1) Back then it was just a shareable game-engine. The business model has since become more complex.

(2) Brett McLaughlin’s Book PHP & MySQL: The Missing Manual was the first programming book I ever owned.

(3) Outside of FRC, Java was also my first step outside Roblox for game development. And of course, the java.awt.Robot class was great for pranks.

(4) The book Git Pocket Guide: A Working Introduction has been influential to my git workflow. Commit often, rebase and squash before pushing, and make decision-capturing messages.

Work Experience

I consider myself very fortunate to have had early work experience. I’ve included my prouder moments.


(5) Implementation touched all sorts of interesting technology that ChaosSearch had developed.

(6) These savings were so significant that we could turn on old alerts. We wrote new alerts for faults in ingestion. We could even ring phones 15x faster (running every quarter of an hour to every minute!)

Contact

I communicate from mathiaskools at gmail dot com.

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