Thijs Smudde, Software Developer Thijs Smudde

AI Systems & Product Engineer

I design and build AI-native products, agent workflows, and production web platforms from idea to launch.

Open for new projects[email protected]+31 6 348 704 71GMT+1

Testimonials

Danny Verpoort

Danny Verpoort

Platform Engineer | Bridging software and platform engineering for SaaS | Kubernetes & Cloud-native

Thijs is a bright ReactJS developer with a promising career ahead of him. If you're looking to onboard someone on your team to get things done and teach you a thing or two about React and design systems in the progress don't hesitate to get in touch with him.
Casper Schippers

Casper Schippers

Tech Lead Customer Engagement at Rabobank

Thijs is a sincere, enthusiastic and open-minded front-end developer. Thijs and I were colleagues in the application team at BauWatch. As Scrum Master I experienced working with him as pleasant. Thijs' knowledge and skill around React is in-depth and impressive!

About Me

AI Systems & Product Engineer with a strong foundation in React, TypeScript, Next.js, and Node.js. I design and build AI-native products, agent workflows, and production web platforms, combining product thinking with hands-on engineering from idea to launch.

Work Experience

PromptRadar.nl

PromptRadar.nl

August 2026 - Present
Founder

Launched the Dutch brand on the VerifiedDR multi-brand platform, running localized AI visibility scans and reporting for Dutch businesses on their own domain.

VerifiedDR.com

VerifiedDR.com

June 2026 - Present
Founder

Built an AI visibility platform that tracks how websites show up in AI answers and search. It covers verified trust scores, backlink and citation analysis, a link exchange marketplace and an agent-facing API with its own MCP server. Runs on Cloudflare Workers with TanStack Start, Better Auth, Stripe and InstantDB.

AgentReacher.com

AgentReacher.com

April 2026 - Present
Founder

Built an AI-first social media scheduling platform that lets agents and teams plan, approve, and publish posts across channels.

AgentMRR.com

AgentMRR.com

April 2026 - Present
Founder

Built a verified revenue directory and Agent Auth workflow for AI agent startups, with Stripe-backed verification and public agent profiles.

BrandReel.com

BrandReel.com

February 2026 - Present
Founder

Built an AI video generation SaaS for creating branded product, social, and campaign videos from structured brand inputs.

Glutenvrijadvies.nl

Glutenvrijadvies.nl

December 2025 - Present
Founder

Built a Dutch ecommerce and content platform for gluten-free advice, courses, blog content, and guided customer onboarding.

Lab Digital

Lab Digital

August 2025 - Present
Senior Freelance Front-end Developer

Working across multiple Lab Digital client projects for major retail brands including Frasers Group, Sports Direct, and Flannels, building ecommerce storefront and platform features with NextJS, Contentful, Commercetools, Algolia, and Boomi.

Eurocom

Eurocom

December 2023 - January 2025
Senior Freelance Front-end Developer

Led the development of an enterprise healthcare management platform, overseeing features such as real-time device telemetry, staff scheduling, and analytics dashboards. Implemented a comprehensive Content Management System (CMS) using PayloadCMS and TypeScript, including workflow management, incident reporting, and media handling. Integrated Azure Blob storage and Redis caching to optimize performance and scalability.

Lukkien

Lukkien

January 2023 - September 2023
Freelance NextJS Developer

Served as the lead front-end developer for rebuilding the CROW website using NextJS. Developed a server-side rendered website with high configurability for content managers through a headless CMS. Implemented various page types, including product overviews, news pages, and a new checkout flow.

BauWatch

BauWatch

November 2021 - December 2022
Freelance Front-end Developer

Provided ReactJS and TypeScript training to the application team through workshops and assessments. Multiple business critical applications were built with and migrated to ReactJS, and finally presented to stakeholders. Created a highly reusable component library with Storybook. Used service workers in combination with OpenAPI specification for testing and sharing API definitions between front-end and back-end teams.

DSK

DSK

July 2020 - May 2021
Full Stack Developer

Developed DSKVetwise.nl, an internship database for veterinary students containing internships from over 75 veterinary practices across the Netherlands. Cooperated with designer using Figma.

VeganFollowing

VeganFollowing

2020 - 2021
Founder

Designed and built a social media platform for vegans using React-Native and deployed it on multiple platforms.

Kamermaatje

Kamermaatje

2019 - 2020
Co-Founder

Developed a matching service for students seeking housing, collaborating with a designer and using Material-UI.

Kate Innovations

Kate Innovations

August 2018 - August 2019
Front-end Developer

Worked on the Mobile inspection tool, the CompView, the complex dashboard and the valuation edit.

MyRoutes

MyRoutes

2017 - 2019
Founder

Application development for Android and the realtime javascript framework MeteorJS. DevOps experience with multiple development environments, building a startup and managing customer relations. Deployed app on Play Store, App Store and Web. Resulted in over 100k installs in 2 years.

Education

Radboud University

Radboud University

2019 - 2021
Master's Degree in Information Sciences
Radboud Honours Academy

Radboud Honours Academy

2019 - 2020
Honours Program
University of Utrecht

University of Utrecht

2016 - 2019
Bachelor's Degree in Information Sciences
UU Honours College Descartes

UU Honours College Descartes

2017 - 2019
Honours Program

Frequently Asked Questions

Are you available for new projects?

Yes, I am currently open to new projects. I would be happy to hear more about product, AI, or platform work that aligns with my expertise.

What services do you offer?

I help teams design and develop AI-native products, agent workflows, and production web platforms. My work combines product thinking, full-stack engineering, and practical AI implementation with React, TypeScript, Next.js, and Node.js.

Where are you located? Do you work remotely?

I am based in Soest, the Netherlands and primarily work remotely, which allows me to collaborate efficiently with clients worldwide. Where necessary and by arrangement, I am also available for on-site work.

Tech Stack

Languages

TypeScriptNode.jsRust

Front-end & UI/UX

ReactNext.jsTanStack StartTanStack Querynext-intlTailwindCSSRadix UIShadcnMotionJotaiReact NativeStorybook

Back-end & APIs

Node.jsBetter AuthStripeReact EmailZodGraphQLApollo GraphQLCommercetoolsAlgoliaPayloadCMSUpstash RedisRust

AI & Data

ClaudeCodexAI SDKOpenAIPostHogInstantDB

Testing & DevOps

PlaywrightVitestViteTurborepoBiomeWranglerAWSCloudflare
Contact

Get in Touch

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