Evolutionary biology Decentralised computing
"Vampire bats taught me about network trust"
What emerged from this
Modelled bat blood-sharing as a decentralised trust protocol for autonomous networks.
Wouter Bulten
Software engineer. I like to point technology at fields where it hasn't been tried yet.
I've been writing code since I was a teenager and building software professionally for over fifteen years. But the technology was never the point by itself — what I enjoy is taking it somewhere new. Every step in my career has been about connecting engineering with a field that needed it: biology, robotics, medicine, regulation. It's the same instinct that has me automating my house and documenting recipes on this site.
The Pattern
Robotics Smart homes
"I took SLAM out of robots and put it in buildings"
The publication
Applied robotic localisation to indoor positioning for smart buildings. Published at IEEE IoTDI.
Deep learning Clinical pathology
"I trained neural networks to grade cancer like a pathologist"
The Nature Medicine paper
Built AI for prostate cancer diagnosis matching pathologist performance. Published in Nature Medicine.
AI research Medical device regulation Startup operations
"Now I get AI diagnostics through regulatory and into hospitals"
What I do now
Bridging research, product, and regulation to ship AI diagnostics as certified medical devices.
The best problems sit between disciplines. I've spent my career learning to work in those gaps — finding structure where fields overlap and building things that neither side could build alone.
The same instinct, off the clock
Technology × Home
Home automation
I've been automating my house for years — sensors, smart lighting, custom integrations. It's the same puzzle: take a technology built for one context and figure out how to make it useful in everyday life.
Technology × Kitchen
Cooking & food blog
I cook a lot, and I document what works. The recipe section of this site is where the engineer meets the kitchen — systematic, tested, written up so someone else can reproduce the results.
I'm always happy to talk about AI in healthcare, building regulated software products, or anything else that sits at the intersection of fields. The best conversations start where expertise overlaps.