Backend engineer working on systems that can prove what they do with data: Confidential computing, remote attestation, reproducible builds.
Very comfortable in Go, some experience in Rust. Familiar with Kubernetes and Postgres.
Most recently I spent 14 months contracting on OpenPCC, an open source variant of Apple's Private Cloud Compute. I'm now building verbond.dev, an open-source runtime that verifiably limits what untrusted code can do with your data.
I'm a good fit if:
- Your product or service says "we never see your data", and customers or auditors are starting to ask you to prove it.
- You've looked at Confidential Computing, but aren't sure where to start.
- You need a Go backend built or reviewed with data-privacy in mind.
Check out my services and prices at: https://www.willem.dev/services
If you're looking for a custom engagement, that's also possible, schedule a call here: https://www.willem.dev/schedule
Email: [email protected]
https://github.com/confidentsecurity/bhttp
Hey HN,I'm Willem, a freelance engineer. Together with the folks at Confident Security I developed this Go package that we open sourced today: https://github.com/confidentsecurity/bhttpIt's a Go implementation of BHTTP (RFC 9292) that allows you to encode/decode regular `http.Request` and `http.Responses` to BHTTP messages.We've implemented the full RFC: - Known-length and indeterminate-length...
https://github.com/confidentsecurity/twoway
Hey HN,I'm Willem from Confident Security, we've built CONFSEC, a provably private AI inference engine. Today, we're excited to open-source twoway: https://github.com/confidentsecurity/twowaytwoway is a Go package that makes it easy to implement secure, encrypted request-response flows. It powers CONFSEC's blind prompt handling, ensuring no one, not even us, can see client requests.We built...
Location: Germany
Remote: Yes
Willing to relocate: No
Technologies: Go(Golang), Kubernetes, Postgres, webdev
Other: Technical writing, some design & frontend.
Website: willem.dev
Github: github.com/willemschots
LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/willem-schots
Twitter: twitter.com/willemschots
My last projects were all in Go and deployed to Kubernetes on AWS and Google Cloud. So that's top-of-mind atm.
Since last year I've been working on my website willem.dev, where I regularly post educational content related to Go and web development.
For bigger projects you can contact me at [email protected], or schedule a meeting directly via my website.
I'm currently available for up to 16h per week.
Looking forward to having a chat :)
Location: Germany
Remote: Yes
Willing to relocate: No
Technologies: Go(Golang), Kubernetes, Postgres, web dev
Other: Technical writing, some design & frontend.
Website: willem.dev
Github: github.com/willemschots
LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/willem-schots
Twitter: twitter.com/willemschots
My last projects were all in Go and deployed to Kubernetes on AWS and Google Cloud. So that's top-of-mind atm.
Since last year I've been working on my website willem.dev, where I regularly post educational content related to Go and web development.
If you just need quick advice, it's possible to schedule a 30 min consulting sessions directly on my website.
For bigger projects you can contact me at [email protected], I'm currently available up to 32h per week.
Looking forward to having a chat :)
Putting the first few articles online was nerve-wracking though. I would recommend getting them out of the way as quickly as possible.
Also, finding the right post length can be challenging.
My blog/articles about Go dev: https://www.willem.dev
Same here, it's rare to use arrays directly in my experience. Just difficult to explain (or visualize) slices without also discussing arrays.
https://www.willem.dev/projects/slice-visualizer/
Hi! This is a small web app I made to explore the relationship between arrays and slices in Go. Probably mostly useful for beginners to Go :)It gets a bit rough around the edges when you provide a custom capacity using index expressions but should work in most other cases.I'm looking into adding some transitions/animations, I think it would be a good way to visualize loops for example, but I...