Boris van der Kruk · AI Engineer

I build AI,
and the product
around it.

I'm Boris. I take ideas all the way to people using them: the model, the app, the release.

Selected work

Built end to end.
Most of it you can try.

01 · Product · 2026

Chain.

Make something of your time.

A focus app for Windows and Android. Your focused hours build a castle for each project. I built it for myself. Now strangers use it too.

Chain in numbersLive from Chain·
Hours of focus
1,155
Focus sessions
939
Users
20

15 active in the past 30 days

Green figures show the last 30 days. Cloud-synced sessions, my own included.How this is measured

Updated 13 October 2026 at 20:25 UTC. Totals refresh about every five minutes. Focus totals cover all-time banked sessions synced to the cloud, including my own use; offline-only work is excluded. Deleted and anonymous accounts are excluded. Active means cloud sync activity in the past 30 days, not necessarily a focus session. Growth compares these totals with totals 30 days before the update above, using a rolling window of 30 × 24 hours. The baseline is reconstructed from currently surviving synced sessions completed before that cutoff, on accounts registered before that cutoff. Edits, deletions and late sync can revise it; it is not a stored historical snapshot.

Inside ChainWindows + Android
Chain on Windows: the daily chain and controls for starting a focus session.

Start with the work. Pick a project, set an intention and begin. Each day of focus adds a link to the chain.

View larger
Chain's Android interface with a running focus timer and session controls.

Android FocusTap to view larger ↗

Real app interfaces with fictional demo dataWindows and Android
Illustration for Cartog

04 · Applied AI · 2026

Cartog

Chain's feedback board. AI groups similar ideas, and votes pick what I build next.

Svelte · TypeScript · PixiJS · OpenRouter

AI work for other teams

Private code. Happy to talk through it.
Illustration for Medbot

06 · Internship, then part-time · 2024–26

Medbot for SmartMed

Answers pharmacists' medication questions and shows the source behind every answer. It hadn't reached production when I left.

Azure AI Search · AI Foundry · Camunda · RAG

Illustration for Murmur

07 · Graduation project · 2026

Murmur for NEH

Finds social media posts about housing associations and flags the ones staff need to act on. I took it to production.

Python · NLP · Social APIs

How I build with AI

The model suggests.
Code decides.

AI writes much of my code and runs inside most of what I build. I only trust the parts I can check.

  1. Rules belong in code.

    In my running coach, a model drafts the training plan. Code checks the rules before it is applied.

    Evidence · AI Running Coach
  2. A new model has to win.

    Every new Bongaclang network plays the live one first. One lost, so it never shipped.

    Evidence · Bongaclang
  3. Answers show their sources.

    My assistant for pharmacists answers from a curated knowledge base and cites its sources.

    Medbot for SmartMed · private code
  4. Tests gate every release.

    Chain's October release passed 2,776 tests before it reached the Microsoft Store.

    Evidence · Chain

A bit about me

Curious enough to start.
Stubborn enough to finish.

I switched my degree from software development to AI the year ChatGPT came out. I've built with it ever since.

Off the keyboard I collect challenges: fixing my motorbike, a one-arm pull-up (in progress), and a 53 km ultra.

Education
BSc AI · HU UtrechtFinal project in, awaiting the grade
YouTube
Pipiezi · 2.8M viewsExperiments on myself, mostly aim training
Location
Soest → Da Nang, VietnamMoving around January 2027

Available now · 20–25 h a week

Have something in mind?

Freelance or contract AI work. Tell me what you want to build.

Download my CVPDF

Remote, or on-site around Utrecht until January 2027. Then remote from Da Nang, Vietnam (UTC+7).