I started building websites as a teenager in Dendermonde, and at sixteen I turned that into my first web development company.

In 2026 I left Belgium for Columbia, the first in the history of my school and my family to do so. I'm inspired by the people who built things that outlasted them, and one day I'd like to found a company of my own. For now, I learn by building.

Currently working on

• PianoPass

  A booking system for the piano practice rooms at Columbia, started right after orientation as a community project for the university. The Music Department had wanted something like it for about ten years; nobody had built it, so we did, and the department funded it. In its first week, 153 people used it for 30 hours of practice.

• An app to learn investing

  I'm running the marketing for an app that teaches people how to invest, together with a friend from Australia. The name stays secret for now.

• ICM

  An income and career model, profession by profession: Python over per-country profession datasets, with an income curve fitted to each profession.

Publications

• Het Nieuwsblad Newspaper article · October 2026 Fewer and fewer foreign students go to the US, but Nicolas (18) takes the leap: What I've mainly learned here is to dare Read the article (in Dutch)
• HLN Newspaper article · 2026 Nicolas (18) leaves Dendermonde behind for a prestigious university in New York: There are so many opportunities here, and I want to seize them Read the article (in Dutch)

Contact

Feel free to reach out to me whenever you want.

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I also write now and then on my blog, nothingwrongwith.me.