Hi, I'm Thomas Bood,
I'm a Computer Science & Engineering student at TU Delft. I've been drawn to technology since I was a kid, not just because it was cool, but because of the way it makes me think: structured, logical, and with endless solutions. That early curiosity never left. If anything, it's grown into something more deliberate.
Midway through my degree I went on exchange to the University of Waterloo in Canada, where instead of taking more CS courses I chose to focus on entrepreneurship. Taking courses in areas like leadership, business negotiation and consulting. Not because I wanted to pivot away from engineering, but because I've always believed that building something meaningful requires more than technical skill. It requires understanding the people, systems, and the space where good ideas actually become reality.
My approach to work sits at the intersection of two instincts that push against each other in useful ways: I think in big pictures and long horizons, but I can't let go of the details. I care about clean systems, considered decisions, and code that holds up. Not because I want to be a perfectionist, but because I want to build things that last, and I know that the way you build is just as important as what you build.
I'm a generalist by nature and by choice. Therefore I enjoy working across the full stack. Having worked with TypeScript and Vue frontends to Java, Python and systems-level Rust. Knowing them well enough to build with, but staying honest enough to know I've not mastered any of them. I find that freeing rather than frustrating. There's always a next level, always something to improve. I believe failing is just successful discovery of new information, and that consistent progress driven by purpose beats any shortcut.
Outside of code I run, row, windsurf, and shoot photography. I pick up hobbies the same way I pick up skills: throw myself in, figure it out, get better. Most things I learn tend to bleed into other areas of life. For example, photography has taught me to slow down and look at things carefully and from different angles, which turns out to help me enjoy the little things in life more too.
I'm still early in my journey, but I know the kind of person I want to become: someone who shares knowledge openly, builds from purpose, treats failure as information, and keeps expanding their comfort zone on what they thought was possible.
