About

Hi, nice to meet you! I'm Neil, a curious self-driven software architect from Europe.

My journey to core software architecture began with a self-driven curiosity at age 12. Now, decaded later, my core project is growing the MyWLP Platform (AI Friendly WordPress/EU Alternative) as well as empowering founders to get started and stand a chance in this new era of AI.

What is your big dream in life if you could not fail?

My big dream in life if I could not fail is to become an Angel Investor/VC for European Startups and Founders. One that does reply. One that knows first-hand that founders often need to understand the value of money themselves first: "Rich Dad Poor Dad" Book Knowledge + First-Hand Experience.

Let's say for example, you as a founder never had 10.000EU with no strings attached, for no particular project, and now you get it. I believe it’s best to let founders go play, go travel and experiment with that first—while still developing their projects.

That way, when they get the bigger runway investment, they will be much further, stabler and have the first-hand experience to choreograph their resources most effectively.

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A Brief History of Neil - Mostly Tech Related

2005-2011: Baby Developer: made my first website with WordPress on a shared host. Slowly learning PHP & MySQL. Sold my first eBook.
2011-2012: Webdevelopment: formal education in Multimedia Design in Den Bosch. Registerd my company at the Dutch Chamber of Commerce. Started freelancing with HTML/CSS/JS/WordPress/MySQL/PHP.
2012-2018: Cybersecurity: formal education in ICT + Cybersecurity (6 years, 2 internships, left one day before graduation) Participated in Ethical Hacking/ctfs/etc. Rented my first VPS. Learned Python, NodeJS & Linux.
2017-2024: Self-Education: Started to read books like "Rich Dad, Poor Dad". Learned a lot valuable lessons the hard way. Sold my first domain name. Became a Yoga Teacher. Traveled through Europe and beyond. Sold my first refurbished laptop.
2024: Core Development: Forked ClassicPress (a fork of WordPress) to make it more 'White Label'. The overall goal was to create a decentralized plugin repository, but I could not find peace with having to force the GPL license + limits on the new ecosystem.
2025: Own Core: Wrote WhiteLabelPress (WLP) from scratch, SOUL licensed (allowing developers to protect their code), mostly WordPress Compatible while Improving the Scalability & AI Friendlynesss (PHP Swoole Server + Postgresql, no Apache2 needed). Currently online as SaaS at https://mywlp.eu. Public Source code release date TBA.

Future Focus: EU Tech Ecosystem & EU Tech Independence.