Menno Hofste

Menno Hofsté

EIT Digital Masterschool student

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About Me

Hello! My name is Menno.

I am highly motivated person and am always looking to broaden my horizon and improve my skills. My interests reach far and wide and cover all forms of technology, from CPU undervolting to app development, and from mechanical engineering to VR.

Once motivated about a project, I do not easily back down and I make sure it is brought to a successful conclusion. This 'never give up' mindset got me to the summit of Mt. Kilimanjaro! I have a lot of experience with working in international teams. Additionally, I always work in an organised way and try to look for a clean solution that is easily understood by all involved. These qualities make me an excellent addition to any company.

Below you can find my past projects. If you want to know more, feel free to contact me!

Latest Projects

Kitley

Kitley is a service that connects people who need to borrow an item to those who have it.

Kitley

Have you ever needed something quickly without the willingness to buy it? You want to weigh your luggage just before leaving on a plane, however you do not have a scale. That one friend with the scale does not respond and your message gets quickly burried underneath the spam of all groups chats. Kitley aims to solve those kinds of problems by easily and efficiently connecting those who need to those who have.

Our team, consisting of five people, tried to tackle this problem for the Business Development course at KTH. Amongst other things, I was responsible for the Minimum Viable Product (MVP) and the website. The MVP is created using Dart & Flutter using Firebase Cloud Firestore as the database. The website is a static HTML website powered by GitHub Pages, Jekyll, and Bootstrap.

View the website    MVP on Github    Website on Github

WaterProof

Waterproof

For my Software Engineering Project (SEP) during my CSE bachelor, I worked together with nine other students to develop Waterproof. Waterproof is an educational environment for writing mathematical proofs in interactive notebooks. This project required me to work with Electron, Javascript, and Vue. The program was presented on a 4TU conference by the client Jim Portegies ( abstract).

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Bachelor Final Project

Digit recognition using Linear Algebra and Deep Learning

During my Bachelor Final Project (BEP), I explained and compared different ways of recognising digits using techniques from various areas within the fields of Mathematics and Computer Science ( paper). The paper touches on k-Nearest Neighbour (kNN), Singular Value Decomposition (SVD), and Neural Networks (NN). The project makes use of MATLAB and Python.

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Smaller Projects

Rectangle Packing Algorithm

A group of seven students, including me, were tasked to solve a rectangle packing problem for the course DBL Algorithms at the TU/e. The task was to write an algorithm that, given a list of different rectangles and a time limit, calculates the smallest rectangular area that contains the rectangles. The project was written in Java. ( paper)

Sorting Machine

Three other students and I created a sorting machine that sorts black and white disks for the course DBL Embedded Systems at the TU/e. The structure is built up of FischerTechnik parts and is driven by a microcontroller that is designed by the TU/e, called the PP2. The PP2 is programmed using a custom version of Assembly. ( paper)

Work Experience

IT assistant - Roll Group (2015 - 2017)

During these summer vacations I worked for the Roll Group IT departement and provided support to the employees. This involved, but was not limited to, setting up new computers, solving technical problems, and writing scripts to quickly draw up an inventory of the computers in storage.