Hi team! I'm Christian Van de Werken. Proudly 🏳️‍🌈 and use he / him / gurl.

• Currently work in emerging tech policy for the USG
• Former nerd for IBM and DOJ (blockchain all day err day since '12)

• Mixed media artist working on painting, illustration, and other physical fashion-oriented mediums
• Hobbies include fashion, yoga, dogs, cooking, art, omakase, music, design, haircare, skincare, and standup comedy... not particularly in that order
• Always creating something cool @ cvdw.xyz

• Languages / scripting: A whole lotta Python, TypeScript (mostly using Angular and Node.js, but occasionally React and Expo), Solidity *shudders... has nightmare flashbacks*, Bash, SQL, HTML, CSS / SCSS, Ducky / Bunny Script
• Software / tools: Jenkins, Postman, Swagger, Git (obvi), PostgreSQL, Docker, K8s / Helm, Blender, Truffle, Ganache
• Cloud / infra: AWS fanboy with lots of SysAd and dev experience: {EC2 / ECS, Lambda, Glue, Kinesis, EKS, S3, RDS, DynamoDB, SNS, ELB / ALB, Route53, CloudFront, WAF, API Gateway, IAM management, SageMaker}, Okta Auth0, HashiCorp Vault, OpenAI API
• Haven't worked with yet but want to: Spark, PyTorch, JAX, three.js
• Currently learning: Italian and C++

• Online at werken.com
• On Bluesky @therealvdw.bsky.social