Personal information
- First name
- Nils
- Last Name
- Van Zuijlen
- Birth-date
- 28th February 2000
- Address
-
5C Avenue de l'Alverne
44300 Nantes
France - Nationalities
- French
- Dutch
Internet accounts
- nils@amael.eu
- GitLab
- @nils-van-zuijlen@gitlab.com
- GitHub
- @nils-van-zuijlen@github.com
Skills
Electronics
Software Frameworks
- Rust Embedded
- Django
- Celery
- Flask
- Numpy
- Qt
Softwares
Languages
- French
- native language
- English
- fluent (C1 TOEIC 990)
- Dutch
- working knowledge
Experiences
2023-now
DevOps Engineer at SpikeeLabs
Working as a DevOps engineer at SpikeeLabs, on internal and external IT projects including HR management systems and delivery tracking. More details available on request. We mostly use python and Django, and deploy on Kubernetes.
2022
Internship at SpikeeLabs
Worked for 6 months on ReVolt, a Charge Station Management System for electric vehicle charging. I designed and built a minimum viable product with a demonstration charge point I also built.
2021
Internship at Mouvement Colibris
Worked for 4 months on YunoHost app packaging for HumHub, YesWiki and Question2Answer. I also worked on course sharing and transfers for YesWiki's Learning Management System. It was done in the beginning of the CLIC! project.
2020
Online game development for ExploRêve
Creation of an online scout adventure. I did backend API development in Python with Flask.
2019
Internship at Conseil Général du Finistère, France
Worked for a month on a monitoring software for user computers. The final software was written in JavaScript and PowerShell
Education
September 2021 - January 2022
Studied computer engineering for half a year during an Erasmus exchange at ECAM Bruxelles in Belgium.
December 2020
Passed the TOEIC English test with 990 points C1 CERCL level
July 2020
Followed a course in Non Violent Communication certified by the ACNV.
2017 - 2022
Studied in a five-year course in General Engineering at École Nationale d’Ingénieurs de Brest (ENIB), Brest, France. I received my diploma in 2022.
Projects
2024
French Robotic Cup: Farming Mars
Participated in the French Robotic Cup with the team Lab Sciren from Nantes as a scientific counselor.
I worked on an overhaul of the code organization and LIDAR integration for enemy avoidance.
2023
French Robotic Cup: The cherry on the cake
Participated in the French Robotic Cup with the team Lab Sciren from Nantes.
I found and fixed power supply issues in the main power conditioning board.
2022
Digiform
With a team of other scouts, we built a tool to help with the management of training sessions, from the planning to the evaluation of the trainees. I worked on integration with the existing infrastructure, using its legacy APIs. This tool is currently used for many training sessions in the Scouts et Guides de France association.
Tramway PCB map
Inspired by the work of Chai Jia Xun on PCB Metro maps (archive), I made one for Brest's tramway.
2021
Cloth simulation
In GPU computing, I made a working cloth simulation, which simulates successfully 14400 vertices at 140 fps, using OpenGL and C++.
Stereo-vision and shape reconstruction
During an image treatment class we used a series of pictures, stereo-vision and OpenCV to reconstruct Suzanne the monkey.
2020
French Robotic Cup: Sail The World
Participated in the French Robotic Cup with the team ENIgma Robotics, composed of students from Brest (West of France) and Metz (East of France).
I did obstacle detection and teaching to newly arrived members.
CAN Bus instrumentation
Academic project connecting a set of sensors together on a CAN Bus. I did Qt interface development.
2019
ENIB Student's Website
Upgraded and managed the website ENIB.net.
Added an online shop to it, integrated with Lydia payment service.
The website is made in Python with Django and self-hosted.
French Robotic Cup: Atom Factory
Participated in the French Robotic Cup with the team ENIgma Robotics, composed of students from Brest (West of France) and Metz (East of France).
We arrived 69th over 175 teams with our robots.
I did electronic and software development.
2018
Sound Organizer
A web app to use in order to play audio at theaters during plays.
Written in PHP with Symfony and JavaScript