TheAlgorithm476 (Brent Van den Abbeel)

2016 - 2022

Sint-Jozefscollege, Óscar Romerocollege

IT Management - Software Development

Secondary Education

2022 - 2026

University College Ghent

Applied Information Technology

Professional Bachelor

ITN Revival is a Minecraft server I started in July of 2021, to play Minecraft over the summer with a couple of friends. Since its humble beginnings, ITN Revival has presently grown to about 15 active players, with a lot of custom features. ITN Revival has sharpened my experience in working with the JVM, specifically Kotlin (mod development) and Java (mixins).

The Grove Gok is a (Flemish) website, where people can make predictions for the European and World Cups Soccer. The project was commissioned by my father and a friend of his, after getting annoyed by the manual labour involved in letting people submit paper ballots with their predictions. Over time, the project grew, and it is now a full-fletched platform, offering account creation, digital hand-in of predictions, (manual) payment processing, and automatic score calculation.

In my spare time, I contribute to Swift for Arduino, an organisation with the goal of getting Swift running on AVR microcontrollers. After originally interning there, I continued making contributions, and at some point even became internship supervisor. I had to stop as an internship supervisor after starting another job.

Astar Labs is the spiritual successor to Astar Technologies, but instead of building rockets, I build AI models. Astar Labs's goal is to develop small-scale, efficient AI systems, that are able to be integrated locally onto basically any consumer device, from phones to desktops, and deliver helpful, accurate answers to questions.

After graduating from college, I started working at Aaltra, a Belgian software agency. At the time of writing this, I am still onboarding, and will (probably) update this description later.

ArduinoKit is a standard library for AVR-based microcontrollers, written in Swift, based on CoreAVR. The project is a result of my internship at Swift for Arduino, because of the need for a higher-level library to complement to lower-level CoreAVR. They have given me permission to keep maintaining ArduinoKit myself, also allowing me to keep close ties with my internship provider.

I interned at Swift for Arduino for about 3 months for my College studies. During this time, I worked on CoreAVR, a HAL for AVR microcontrollers, written completely in Swift. Additionally, I also established the ArduinoKit project, a standard library built on top of CoreAVR, allowing users to use an easier, more familiar Arduino-like API.

Astar Technologies was a project originally started as a hobby, where I built model rockets that can land themselves. Over time, the project grew, and I was taking steps towards turning it into an aerospace startup, offering suborbital launch services to researchers & academia, before finally canning the project in early 2026 due to lack of support from people around me.

During the summers of 2022 and 2023, I worked at Crelan, a Belgian bank, in Ninove, as an administrative assistant. I was tasked with classifying and digitizing documents, as well as basic customer service and support.

In my last year of high school, I worked together with a classmate to develop "Octan", a rhythm game. The projected consisted of Octan; the actual game, Divergence; a custom game engine written in Java that powered it, and OctanWeb; a custom webserver hosting its website, also written in Java. After graduating high school, my classmate and I decided to keep developing the concept, but she lost interest a few months later, causing the project to end.