Personal Information

Name: Thijs Terlouw

Gender: Male

Date of Birth: April 6th 1980

Age: 30

Nationality: Dutch

Education: Computer Science with MSc degree

University: Delft University of Technology

Working Experience:

2006 Aug-current: Tencent Inc. China

2006-2009: Part-time freelance website development 

2005: Part of graduation in a non-profit organization

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Address: Futian district, Shenzhen, P.R. China

I graduated at 22nd of december 2005 in the field of Computer Science, at the department of Information Systems. My thesis work consists of developing a workflow system for a non-profit organisation based on Internet Technology. Currently I am working for Tencent in Shenzhen on Internet applications for the Chinese market. My main interest are designing and implementing scalable Internet applications.

Education and Training

Sep 1992 ~ Aug 1998

Gymnasium Camphusianum

High School

Sep 1998 ~ Dec 2005

Bachelor&Master of Science

Delft University of Technology

Information Systems

Working Experience

• During the summer of 2000 I worked at Royal Dutch Shell in Rijswijk on designing a parallel numerical solver for sparse matrixes on a large cluster of 1024 processors.

• During my graduation I have worked within ASVZ, an nationwide organisation, on above mentioned Workflow System. 
  

• I developed various websites, among others www.guanxi.nu,  www.startinchina.com  and China webshop www.zaiton.nl

• I am currently working in Tencent Inc. in China as backend engineer. I worked on shuqian.qq.com (PHP, MySQL) and qun.qq.com (PHP, Erlang, C++). 

Key Skills

Computer Science:

• Familiar with various programming, scripting, markup languages and frameworks such as Java, C(++), PHP and Erlang
  

• Familiar with a wide variety of tools such as Microsoft Office, various compilers, IDE’s and CMS' (like Joomla), Apache Tomcat, Lucene, Nutch, Solr, SVN, Git
  

• Good understanding of MySQL and working knowledge of Linux. Experience with design & implementation of high performance and high scalability websites using modern tools such as Memcached, Haproxy, RabbitMQ/ZeroMQ
  

Languages:

• English and Dutch both fluent in writing and speaking. Can understand German. Beginner in Chinese (Mandarin). Can read a little Latin and French.

Hobbies: Reading about Science and Technology, as well as Politics and Economy; Cycling, Iceskating, Skiing, Travelling, Learning more about China, Photography

Personality: Conscientious, precise, open minded, self-conscious, imaginative, responsible, handles pressure well.