vandockum.dev
Freelance brain-for-hire. Web stuff, software architecture, the occasional rescue mission for a project that started in a spreadsheet and got out of hand. If it has a deadline and a weird requirement, I'm probably interested.
GO LOOK →// THE GUY BEHIND ITI'M STEFAN.
I'M STEFAN.
I MAKE WEIRD
INTERNET THINGS.
MonkeyRebels isn't a studio with a foosball table and a hiring page. It's one person in a banana-coloured hoodie, somewhere between Eindhoven and a freshly-brewed coffee, deciding that the world needs one more slightly-stupid internet thing.
- NAMEStefan van Dockum
- JOBFreelance Digital Craftsman & Architect
- ALSOFounder of Skill Stacking (an A.I.-first learning lab)
- HQSchijndel, NL — a roundabout away from Eindhoven
- STATUSCaffeinated. Mildly opinionated. Available.
- UNIFORMBanana-yellow hoodie, suspicious about meetings
// FREELANCE DIGITAL CRAFTSMAN — BANANA YELLOW — ZERO APOLOGY
THREE HATS,
ONE HEAD //
Skill Stacking
An A.I.-first learning lab for ICT pros who'd rather not be replaced by a chatbot. I run trainings, hackathons, and the occasional keynote where I yell about prompts. Adapt. Grow. Achieve. (Yes, that's the tagline. I stand by it.)
SEE THE LAB →MonkeyRebels
This place. The dumb-fun side project that keeps the other two honest. Microsites, mini apps, weird tools, the occasional useful thing — built with too much care and not enough sleep.
SAY HI →FOUR
RULES //
WEIRD BEATS SAFE
I'd rather ship something a little strange and memorable than something clean and forgettable. Safe work is already everywhere. The internet doesn't need more of it.
SHIP SMALL, SHIP OFTEN
Perfect is a scam invented by people who don't want to launch. I ship rough, fix in public, and trust that a live thing in the world will always beat a polished thing in a Figma file.
NO CORPORATE MUSH
No synergy. No 'delightful experience'. No leverage. I write the way I talk. Occasionally I swear. Occasionally a banana joke sneaks in. It's fine.
PLAY IS THE POINT
If the thing isn't fun to build, it'll be boring to use. I notice when I stop smiling at the keyboard and I fix that before I fix anything else. It's a load-bearing smile.