Resume


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

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