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Nick van den Dungen

hei, I'm Nick

You set the goal, I find the route.

I'm a full-stack engineer in Helsinki. Before software, I was a wilderness guide in Finnish Lapland, leading snowmobile tours and northern-lights trips. I still do the same job: get a group from A to B, safely and in good spirits.

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Portrait of Nick van den Dungen

The route so far

not a straight line, and that's the point

  1. Kampen · 2008Music venuesMarketing and booking bands at Ukien and Nirvana. Singer in a punk band, later a metal band.
  2. Nijmegen · 2012Sport scienceBSc at HAN. Health still runs my day: training, good food, meditation.
  3. Lapland · 2016Wilderness guideSnowboard instructor, then guiding snowmobile tours in Arctic Finland and Sweden.
  4. Helsinki · 2022Learning to codeC and C++ at Hive Helsinki, while teaching young kids Dutch on the side.
  5. Soil Scout · 2024Lead Full Stack EngineerOwned the software product, hired and mentored, kept the sensor data flowing.
  6. You are here · 2026Tiny TarrasqueFounding an app for people who play tabletop role-playing games together.

Field notes

What I'm building now, and what got me here.

All projects

Founder · Jun 2026 – now

Tiny Tarrasque

An offline-first character sheet for tabletop RPG groups who play around a real table. I'm building it on my own, with AI agents.

Friends alpha Oct 2026 · beta Dec 2026

85 test files before anything counts as done

TypeScriptReact NativeExpoAI agents
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Tiny Tarrasque character sheet on a phone

Work · 2024–2026

Soil Scout

I led development of The Hub, the dashboard for Soil Scout's buried soil sensors, and built our hiring pipeline from scratch.

Full Stack Engineer, promoted to Lead Full Stack Engineer in 2025

sensors in the ground, data on a screen

DjangoReactTimescaleDBGCP
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6.5M+sensor uploads an hour

Hive Helsinki · team project

Transcendence

Real-time 3D Pong in the browser, with accounts and tournaments. I led the front end and helped across the rest of the stack.

Django REST, a socket.io game server, fully dockerised

Three.jsDjango RESTsocket.ioDocker
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Transcendence: a 3D Pong table seen from above, two paddles and a ball

Workflow

How I build with AI agents.

The setup behind Tiny Tarrasque, and roughly what I'd bring to a team.

01

Agents with guardrails

Written rules for every part of the codebase, and nothing is done until the types and tests pass.

02

Small, reviewable steps

One task, one pull request, CI on each. The agents write code; I own the design and the review.

03

Six weeks, solo

From first commit to a playable app, with 85 test files along the way.

04

AI in the product, later

An optional AI backstory for the paid tier, running through my own server.

Grab a tea, roll some dice, build something good.

Open to CTO, founding-engineer & full-stack roles. Based in Helsinki, free to work in Finland (no visa needed) and available right away.

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