Curriculum vitae

The Park Playground is an entertainment company where people can play free roam VR games in group. At the end of 2021 they approached me with an offer to join as a web and game developer. At that point, I was a reasonably skilled web developer, so I jumped at the opportunity.

Still very much a startup, it was only me and the CTO Gilles Adrien Cenni for the first 2 years. The rest of the (young and energetic) team more than made up for this. It was a demanding job, but I have some of my fondest memories working for the company and met people I now call friends.

Being the only (web) developer in charge of a lot of the companies web architecture put a lot of pressure on me. It also led to me learning a whole lot in a short amount of time. I especially learned a lot about backend development and CI/CD. Over time, the team grew to include two more web developers and Rob Jackson, our project manager and still one of the best colleagues I've ever worked with. Special shout-out to Kilian Melaerts as well for keeping morale high with his (sometimes very) silly jokes during tough sprints!

At the start of 2025, after some restructuring, the company decided to move from a custom-built platform to an off-the-shelf solution. Since this change would gradually make my role redundant, and with many of the original team members having moved on, I chose to help with this transition and then quit myself.

I will forever be grateful to The Park Playground for the opportunities, the experiences, and most of all, the amazing people I met along the way!

A good user experience (UX) should be at the the top of the priority list for any piece of software that is intended for (real) users. Having always been interested in this aspect of development, I decided to take an evening course in UX Design at Syntra.

During the course I learned how to research user traits and behaviors to iteratively design experiences that meet the needs of as many users as possible.

At the end of 2018 World of Waw, the company I had been working for, was unfortunately not profitable enough to keep me and my colleague employed. As a result, we were let go. Tim, the CTO, asked I'd be interested in going freelance to continue to maintain and develop World of Waw's projects.

After some consideration I decided to take the leap and founded my own company, Joeri Van den Eynden in September of 2018. Over the next few years, I worked on both existing and new projects together with my former CTO.

Going self-employed taught me a lot. Not just about development, but also about how businesses, quotations, invoices and taxes work. It's been an interesting journey so far.

My first job! 🥳

World of Waw is an app development startup where I began my career as a Unity frontend developer. Under the guidance of senior developer and CTO Tim Stroobandt I was able to apply and quickly grow my programming skills.

During my time here, I gained a much deeper understanding of object-oriented programming (OOP), REST APIs, augmented reality (AR), database management, math and more.

So Tim, if you're reading this, thanks for everything!

Since programming intrigued me the most after college, I decided to enroll in the evening course called 'Analyst Programmer' at Syntra Genk. During the course, I learned to create Windows WPF applications and how to manage and communicate with databases using (MS) SQL and C#.

Game & Art Design is an academic program, which meant that after I earning my bachelor's degree (see below), I was encouraged to continue for an additional year to obtain my master's degree. During this year I chose to specialize in tech related subjects like programming and 3D software.

Because we had more freedom in our creative and technical direction, I had a blast working on almost every project that year. I ultimately graduated with a distinction.

To learn more about my thesis, visit the project page.

At the Media Arts & Design Faculty (now re-branded as Luca School of Arts) I earned my college degree in Communication & Multimedia Design: Game & Art Design. During my studies, I developed a wide range of skills, including 2D/3D art design, programming and research.