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WOUTER BOOM.

*boom — Dutch for “tree”. Also the sound my builds make.

Cloud Advisor at Rubicon · Heerhugowaard — City of the Sun, NL

By day I put companies in the cloud. By night I take systems apart
to see how deep they go.

scroll — sunrise to midnight

07:04 FIRST LIGHT

Hallo.

I’m Wouter Boom, from Heerhugowaard — the Dutch town that literally built a city around the sun. By day I’m a Cloud Advisor at Rubicon, helping companies find solid ground in Azure. After dark, my machines get strange: hypervisors written from scratch, game clients opened up to see what makes them tick, trading bots working the charts while I sleep. I like systems best when I can see all the way down.

  • certified — Microsoft & Oracle
  • NL + EN — spreekt beide vloeiend
  • ☀️ Stad van de Zon — home base
  • 25+ repos — GitHub + my own BoomSolutions lab

09:30 THE DAY JOB

Head in the clouds.
Professionally.

Cloud Advisor at Rubicon — guiding organisations into Azure with a builder’s instinct: certified across the Microsoft stack, from C# and ASP.NET to Azure solution development, with a detour through Oracle Java.

2023Developing Solutions for Microsoft Azure (AZ-204)
2022Microsoft Certified: Azure Fundamentals
2019MTA: Database Fundamentals
2018Oracle Certified Associate — Java SE 7
2018MCSD: App Builder
2018MCSA: Web Applications
2018Developing ASP.NET MVC Web Applications
2018Developing Azure & Web Services
2018Programming in C#

Full history lives on LinkedIn →

17:12 GOLDEN HOUR

C# ✦ .NET ✦ Azure ✦ ASP.NET ✦ Java ✦ SQL ✦ MQL5 ✦ MetaTrader 5 ✦ Reverse Engineering ✦ 
Kernel Drivers ✦ x86 Internals ✦ Hypervisors ✦ Rust ✦ Next.js ✦ TypeScript ✦ WebGL ✦ Python ✦ MCP ✦ AI Tooling ✦ 

21:47 THE LAB

When the sun sets,
the real machines wake up.

Most of this lives under BoomSolutions — my own R&D lab. One stack, all the way down: a kernel driver, the framework that rides on it, the tools I build with it, and the products that come out the other side.

01

BoomSolutionsEngine

My own game-investigation framework — one toolkit that understands many games at once. The usermode brain of the whole BoomSolutions stack.

  • C++
  • RE
  • Framework
02

GameCaptureDriver

Its kernel counterpart: a hand-written Windows driver reaching from process enumeration all the way down to raw physical memory — where the OS stops hiding things.

  • Kernel
  • Windows
  • C++
03

BoomEngine

A personal fork of Cheat Engine, bent to my will — so I can interrogate any game exactly how I please.

  • C++
  • Memory
  • Tooling
04

AionInternal

An internal C++ DPS meter that reads the fight from the inside — manual-map DLL injection, wrapped in stealth so it’s never seen.

  • C++
  • Manual-map
  • Stealth
05

dpsvault

…then the meters go legit. A combat-analytics storefront: Rust meters into Next.js 15 on C# Azure Functions, Stripe billing, 136 e2e tests, PR-only main.

  • Rust
  • Next.js
  • .NET
  • Stripe
06

Autotrader

MT5 expert advisors that trade while I sleep — plus mt5-mcp, a custom MCP server that lets an AI compile, backtest and babysit them. On the charts since 2021.

  • MQL5
  • Python
  • MCP
07

Jarvis

A personal AI assistant built the hard way: a Python microkernel with hot-plug plugins. Not a chatbot wrapper — an operating system for one.

  • Python
  • AI
  • Microkernel
08

Dashboarder

A free Elgato Stream Deck, built from nothing — a Windows Service and an Android app talking over sockets. Hardware feature, software price.

  • C#
  • Android
  • Sockets
nachtlab — zsh

wouter@nachtlab ~/dev $ ls --story

  • hypervisor-learnerCa hypervisor from scratch, to see beneath the OS
  • aion2-hook-v2C++reflectively-loaded overlay DLL rewrite
  • esp32Cembedded — microcontrollers, sensors, solder
  • ddisplay-duplicatorC++display duplication at the API level
  • mypackerCcustom PE packer, built after dissecting UPX
  • tether-rdpSwiftremote-desktop tooling for the pocket
  • mac-pc-switchGoone keyboard across Mac and PC, no cable
  • incasso-dashboardC#CRM invoice-collection integration — client
  • avic-scannerpriva scanner, for a private client
  • alpha-ringC++Halo MCC modding tool
  • signal-botC#2021 — where the trading story started

wouter@nachtlab ~/dev $ + a few that stay in the dark

23:58 CONVICTION

Use the machine —
or lose to someone who does.

AI is the most powerful tool our trade has ever been handed. I don’t treat it as a gimmick and I don’t fear it — I work with it, every day, like a force multiplier. The people who refuse to use it while they can aren’t protecting their craft. They’re falling behind it.
Shipped dpsvault — a full SaaS on Rust, Stripe & Azure, built with an AI pair programmer
mt5-mcp I don’t just use AI tools — I build the servers that give them hands
This site designed & coded by Claude, directed by me. Proof of concept, living here

02:17 STILL ONLINE

The bots are trading.
I’m awake anyway.

Zeg ’t maar — got a cloud to tame, a system to dissect, or just a good idea at a bad hour?

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