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id: erik_de_rijk
name: Erik de Rijk
rank: 1
memberships: ambassador
bio: Erik fell in love with Unix/Linux/Open Source in 1989 on his Highschool and it never left him. His passion is programming (Shell, php, C and C++) but last few years barely been able to sit behind a Linux terminal to write some proper code (although his hands are itching whenever he sees the crap that is floating out there). Co-founded Unix Support Nederland (USN) with 8 other students and now co-founder and head of a Linux consultancy company (Proxy) with 50 highly qualified Unix/Linux/Open Source technicians in the Netherlands (who call themselves Nerds...). Ambassador fell in love with Threefold After the software/OS revolution that Linux invoked, we need a similar revolution in compute and storage and the ThreeFold foundation may be the spark we need to start this. 
excerpt: His passion is programming (Shell, php, C and C++).
linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/erikd5/
websites: https://threefold.io/
project_ids: threefold_foundation
image: ./erik_de_rijk_processed.jpg
countries: Dutch
cities:
private: 1
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