Who I am

I'm Egbert Nierop – specialist, autodidact and out-of-the-box thinker with years of experience in both small and large teams. I have completed a management training and know how to motivate, guide and lead a team. Still, my biggest passion is technology: from native development to AI and embedded automation.

When needed, I collaborate with experts from my network, like my brother Peter Nierop, who works internationally on similar technical topics.

New challenges motivate me. Here's a photo of myself during a mountain bike tour through the Eifel in Germany — because technology and adventure often go hand in hand.

My Approach

And some examples:

Efficient – Fast, native software directly on your device, without cloud latency.

Pragmatic, not dogmatic – I choose what works – Python, C#, or C++ – depending on your needs.

On-device – My solutions run locally, fast and secure, without vendor lock-in or cloud delays.

Cost-effective – Real-time image or text analysis with OpenCV, PyTorch or custom-compiled LLVM code. I may recommend own hardware over cloud use.

Prefer PWA – I prefer a PWA over native apps to avoid vendor lock-in and high development costs.

Sometimes microservices – I'm not religious about it. Sometimes a flat stack works better.

Preferably no frameworks
In my experience, frameworks have a short lifecycle and high maintenance overhead. On an edge device: zero libraries if possible. This leads to fast UX and minimal footprint.

Cloud vs Self-hosting
Some tools (like whisper.cpp) are perfectly suited for local GPU-based hosting, saving you cloud costs. But yes, sometimes cloud tools are the right choice, like Azure Storage, AWS S3, Redis, SQL.

I don’t claim to know everything, but I love to think along with you and solve problems.