Personal Information

Name: Thijs Terlouw

Gender: Male

Date of Birth: April 6th 1980

Age: 28

Nationality: Dutch

Education: Computer Science with MS degree

University: Delft University of Technology

Working Experience:

2006 Aug-current: Tencent Inc. China

2006-current: Parttime 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 at the innovation center on bringing cool new Internet applications to China by designing and implementing scalable internet applications. See our labs page for some examples : http://labs.qq.com

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 developped 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 in the Innovation Center. I worked on shuqian.qq.com (PHP+MySQL) and an undisclosed product (PHP+Erlang). Also did various other small things in Java and C++

Key Skills

Computer Science:

• Familiar with various programming, scripting, markup languages and frameworks such as Java, C(++), PHP (Zend Framework), Erlang, SQL, HTML, XML, SOAP, Javascript (jQuery), Prolog, JSF, JSP,  Struts, Hibernate, Jakarta Commons, ClearSilver

• 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

• 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 and Haproxy
  

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.