Software Engineer, Photographer, and Friend of Open Source Software

Software

I've been making software professionally for over 15 years.

I am primarily focused on Kotlin Multiplatform development.

I'm currently building BitKey at Block (dba. Square, Cash App)

Recent Writing

Ack APRS Parser for Android Available Now!

🔗 via block.xyz

How Bitkey Uses Cross-Platform Development

Becoming a 10x software engineer by ignoring LLMs

🔗 via bitkey.build

Bitkey’s inheritance feature: A technical deep dive

Markdown is Ruining the Web

Independent Audit of Ionspin’s KMP-Libsodium

Feature Flags as an Anti-Pattern

Fixing Firefox's Session Restore After Restart

Builders are for Java

Why Not Medium?

Photography

I take photos as a hobby. I'm starting to upload them here, check it out!

Contact

Social Media

I do not use any social media.

E-Mail

You can reach me at renee@reneevandervelde.com

Security

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