Fritz Keyzer

• Waterland is a European private equity fund.

• I joined to lead the engineering of their Tech enabled investment projects. Currently managing a team of 4

• My focus thus far has been building a company search engine - primarily aimed to assist the deal-sourcing stages of research.

• Large scale data collection, ingestion, aggregation and enrichment from numerous sources.

• Microservices, event-driven backend cloud infrastructure, using Go, postgresql, Encore

• Sveltekit web-app frontend

• Gain pro is a SaaS company that provides a search engine / research platform for the private-equity, M&A and investment banking sectors

• Backend APIs, data pipelines, AI (LLM) powered features to enable semantic search, clustering and recommendations

• Pipelines to collect and extract financials from national registrars, private suppliers etc

• Systems and infra (GCP, github actions, Pulumi - go) eg: memory profiling, secret management, query monitoring, backups systems, CICD, infrastructure as code

• Movation is a software development company that specialises in Logistics management software

• Full-stack web applications (C#, Blazor, Microsoft SQL) with heavy focus on MSSSQL

• Formula D is an interactive design company focused on interactive installations for museums, science-centres etc

• Designing and integrating electronics and software with interactive installations. Displays, sensors, lighting, actuators etc

• C++ microcontroller firmware. Including audio mixing, lighting animations, network comms

• Configuration of embedded PCs for installation use

• Developed custom industrial automation controllers to monitor, log and control agricultural irrigation systems

• Custom electronic motherboards to interface with micro-processors, radio communication modules, user interfaces, sensors and pump controls

• Developed a web-app dashboard to configure and monitor irrigation systems

• Worked on a project and assisted with low volume electronic production and assembly.

• Designing and prototyping an educational computer game.

• Assisted in designing firmware for a tracking and security device for a freight transport client.

• Music event search and recommendation engine

• Go microservices backend, Postgresql, Sveltekit - typescript, Docker, GCP

• Market-making trading bots, active on multiple cryptocurrency exchanges.

• Back-testing simulation engine, with historical data and live market data - from multiple exchanges.

• AWS: EC2, DynamoDB

• GCP: Go Cloud Functions, BigQuery

• I created a range of audio processors, one of which I converted to VST and VST3 plugin formats.

• Prototyped with max4live and ReaJS meta-plugins. Further developed within the JUCE framework (C++) for VST and VST3 formats.

• I wrote a program that recreates a source image using single shade polygons. An evolutionary AI model is used to find ideal polygons and colours.

• Written as a standalone Java application - using only a canvas library.

• I created a simple library for quickly designing and prototyping games in Java.

• Complete with 2D graphics, Newtonian physics and basic collision physics.

• I created an evolutionary simulation, ”teaching” virtual race-drivers how to race around a track.

• Written in Java, using a custom 2D game engine.

• AI drivers are trained using a genetic algorithm and neural networks - written from first principles with no external dependencies.

• All graphics, physics and neural networks are run and rendered in real-time.

Programming languages

• Go APIs, microservices, CLIs, IaC, data pipelines, financial modelling, high-frequency trading.
• C++, C Real-time audio processing, microcontroller firmware (ARM)
• Java Desktop, web, physics simulations, algorithmic solvers, genetic algorithms
• C# .NET MVC web frameworks, WinForms, Unity game-engine
• Python Tensorflow, Pytorch, Pandas, Numpy, Matplotlib
• Javascript + Typescript Web frontends, Svelte, React, NodeJS

Other technologies

• Databases Postgres SQL, MS SQL, SQLite, CockroachDB, BigQuery, DynamoDB
• Cloud GCP, AWS, Digital Ocean, Fly.io, Vercel