TheAlgorithm476
Brent Van den Abbeel. Flanders, Belgium.
Hello! I'm Brent, online also known as TheAlgorithm476. Welcome to my site!
I live in Brakel, a town in Flanders, Belgium. I'm 21 years old, and a software developer specializing in Swift and the JVM.
In my spare time, you can usually find me working on some new idea I got, spending time hosting game servers for friends, or working towards building rockets.
I'm the kind of person that sets goals that are borderline impossible, and are a challenge to reach. A perfectionist at heart, I only deliver something if I would want to use it myself.
Additionally, I'm a firm believer that out-of-the-box thinking is the most efficient approach to problem solving, so that is what I'll try to do whenever possible. Every time I encounter a bug, glitch, issue, or any other game-breaker, instead of directly working on the problem, I first try to get a bird's-eye view of the general issue, making it possible to approach it from the most efficient angle possible.
Model rockets, Aerospace
Model rockets that can land themselves, and the stretch from a hobby toward a real aerospace project.
Open case →
Game + Engine, Web server
A rhythm game, a custom Java engine, and a custom web server, built as my high school integrated test.
Open case →
Minecraft server, JVM mods
A Minecraft server that started as a summer plan with friends, and grew into years of custom JVM work for a small community.
Open case →
Swift on the Arduino
A Swift standard library for AVR microcontrollers, grown out of my internship at Swift for Arduino and still maintained in the open.
Open case →
Web platform, Predictions
A Flemish soccer-prediction website that replaced paper ballots with accounts, digital entries, and automatic scoring.
Open case →
On-device AI
Small, efficient AI systems meant to live on ordinary consumer devices instead of a data center.
Open case →
March 2026 - Present
Aaltra website →
After graduating from college, I started working at Aaltra, a Belgian Agentic IoT expert and design studio. My job consists of mostly front-end development work, with occasional back-end improvements.
December 2025 - Present
Swift for Arduino website →
After hours, I often contribute to Swift for Arduino, an organisation with the goal of running Swift on AVR microcontrollers. After originally interning there, I continued making contributions, and at some point even became internship mentor. However, since starting my job at Aaltra, I am now only making occasional contributions to the project.
September 2025 - December 2025
Swift for Arduino website →
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 in Swift. Additionally, I established the ArduinoKit project, a standard library built on top of CoreAVR, during this time.
2022 - 2023
Crelan Ninove
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.
September 2016 - June 2022
Sint-Jozefscollege Aalst // Óscar Romerocollege Dendermonde
Secondary education // High school
September 2022 - February 2026
University College Ghent
Undergraduate // Professional Bachelor
10 years
5 years
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