Hey, I'm Rijk 👨‍🍳
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RP

About

At the end of 2022, I quit my job as a software engineer to go fulltime into building and scaling my own SaaS businesses. In the past, I pursued a double degree in computer science and business, interned at big tech companies in Sil// icon Valley, and competed in over 21 hackathons for fun. I also had the pleasure of being a part of the first ever in-person cohort of buildspace called buildspace sf1.

Skills

Svelte
Sveltekit
Typescript
Node.js
Python
Go
Postgres
Docker
Kubernetes
Java
C++
My Projects

Check out my latest work

I've worked on a variety of projects, from simple websites to complex web applications. Here are a few of my favorites.

Chat Collect

With the release of the OpenAI GPT Store, I decided to build a SaaS which allows users to collect email addresses from their GPT users. This is a great way to build an audience and monetize your GPT API usage.

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Magic UI

Designed, developed and sold animated UI components for developers.

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llm.report

Developed an open-source logging and analytics platform for OpenAI: Log your ChatGPT API requests, analyze costs, and improve your prompts.

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Automatic Chat

Developed an AI Customer Support Chatbot which automatically responds to customer support tickets using the latest GPT models.

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Hackathons

I like building things

During my time in university, I attended 21+ hackathons. People from around the country would come together and build incredible things in 2-3 days. It was eye-opening to see the endless possibilities brought to life by a group of motivated and passionate individuals.

  • H

    Hack Western 5

    London, Ontario

    Developed a mobile application which delivered bedtime stories to children using augmented reality.

  • H

    Hack The North

    Waterloo, Ontario

    Developed a mobile application which delivers university campus wide events in real time to all students.

  • F

    FirstNet Public Safety Hackathon

    San Francisco, California

    Developed a mobile application which communcicates a victims medical data from inside an ambulance to doctors at hospital.

  • D

    DeveloperWeek Hackathon

    San Francisco, California

    Developed a web application which aggregates social media data regarding cryptocurrencies and predicts future prices.

  • H

    HackDavis

    Davis, California

    Developed a mobile application which allocates a daily carbon emission allowance to users to move towards a sustainable environment.

  • E

    ETH Waterloo

    Waterloo, Ontario

    Developed a blockchain application for doctors and pharmacists to perform trustless transactions and prevent overdosage in patients.

  • H

    Hack The North

    Waterloo, Ontario

    Developed a virtual reality application allowing users to see themselves in third person.

  • H

    Hack The 6ix

    Toronto, Ontario

    Developed an open platform for people shipping items to same place to combine shipping costs and save money.

  • S

    Stupid Hack Toronto

    Toronto, Ontario

    Developed a chrome extension which tracks which facebook profiles you have visited and immediately texts your girlfriend if you visited another girls page.

  • G

    Global AI Hackathon - Toronto

    Toronto, Ontario

    Developed a python library which can be imported to any python game and change difficulty of the game based on real time emotion of player. Uses OpenCV and webcam for facial recognition, and a custom Machine Learning Model trained on a Kaggle Emotion Dataset using Tensorflow and Keras. This project recieved 1st place prize at the Global AI Hackathon - Toronto and was also invited to demo at NextAI Canada.

  • M

    McGill AI for Social Innovation Hackathon

    Montreal, Quebec

    Developed realtime facial microexpression analyzer using AI

  • O

    Open Source Circular Economy Days Hackathon

    Toronto, Ontario

    Developed a custom admin interface for food waste startup Genecis to manage their data and provide analytics.

  • M

    Make School's Student App Competition 2017

    International

    Improved PocketDoc and submitted to online competition

  • H

    HackMining

    Toronto, Ontario

    Developed neural network to optimize a mining process

  • W

    Waterloo Equithon

    Waterloo, Ontario

    Developed Pocketdoc, an app in which you take a picture of a physical wound, and the app returns common solutions or cures to the injuries or diseases.

  • S

    SpaceApps Waterloo

    Waterloo, Ontario

    Developed Earthwatch, a web application which allows users in a plane to virtually see important points of interest about the world below them. They can even choose to fly away from their route and then fly back if they choose. Special thanks to CesiumJS for providing open source world and plane models.

  • M

    MHacks 9

    Ann Arbor, Michigan

    Developed Super Graphic Air Traffic, a VR website made to introduce people to the world of air traffic controlling. This project was built completely using THREE.js as well as a node backend server.

  • S

    StartHacks I

    Waterloo, Ontario

    Developed at StartHacks 2017, Recipic is a mobile app which allows you to take pictures of ingredients around your house, and it will recognize those ingredients using ClarifAI image recognition API and return possible recipes to make. Recipic recieved 1st place at the hackathon for best pitch and hack.

  • Q

    QHacks II

    Kingston, Ontario

    Developed a mobile game which enables city-wide manhunt with random lobbies

  • T

    Terrible Hacks V

    Waterloo, Ontario

    Developed a mock of Windows 11 with interesting notifications and functionality

  • P

    Portal Hackathon

    Kingston, Ontario

    Developed an internal widget for uploading assignments using Waterloo's portal app

Contact

Get in Touch

Want to chat? Just shoot me a dm with a direct question on twitter and I'll respond whenever I can. I will ignore all soliciting.