Joost Kiens

Building Gnosis, a production AI platform for a Dutch policy consultancy. Architected and implemented an agentic document generation system on Claude Teams; structured intake, dossier context injection, factual QA constraints, and .docx/.pptx export, covering eight document types across five active client dossiers.

Roadmap includes RAG over SharePoint via Supabase/pgvector, MCP server integration

Built an open-source civic tech application visualizing the cross-border origins of Thailand's seasonal PM2.5 crises, making the connection between agricultural burning in Myanmar and Laos and Thai air quality visually undeniable. Designed as a public interest tool for journalists, NGOs, and policymakers ahead of haze season outreach.

Owned the full technical stack: architecture, implementation,

I help clients turn complex data into fast, polished interfaces, specializing in WebGIS, maps, data visualization, motion, and the UI components and design systems behind them. Increasingly the work is AI-native: I build LLM features into products and use a customized Claude Code setup, with skills, hooks, and MCP servers, to ship more without dropping code quality.

React, TypeScript, Next.js, V

Finalized v2 of wowmedia.com. Highlights include:
- Implemented new functionality for the homepage’s interactive 3D map experience using Three.js
- Direction-aware audio in 3D space using howler.js
- Built the frontend for an AI chatbot, integrating with a custom API

https://www.hypersolid.com/work/wow-media

Frontend WebGIS & data viz lead at Restor; the largest network of restoration and conservation sites across the globe. Think Google Maps for nature 🙂


🏆 Awards & Recognition
- Earthshot Prize finalist
- Geo for Good Impact Awards (Google)
- 2 Anthem Awards (Webby) — including 🥇 Gold for Best Product

Architected, designed (together with an amazing design team), and built most of the features on t

Refactoring and development of new features of the Foundation CMS -- a platform for creating interactive, 6K touch-based presentations with rich media (video, 3D models, interactive maps, Lottie animations, vector graphics).

Reverse-engineered Mapbox Studio's monochrome theming capability (unavailable via their API) by generating 10 Studio themes across a range of base colours, extracting per-la

Front-end developer working on content- and e-commerce websites for Heijmans, SLB, Heineken and Lisman Forklifts.

Mainly TypeScript, React, Sass, Wagtail and some GraphQL.

Building highly interactive platforms and websites for customers like bol.com, Rabobank, Fairtrade Original, KLM, T-mobile, and many more great brands.

I focused on enhancing the user experience through creating delightful user interfaces, functional animations and occasionally more experimental experiences. Furthermore, I played a large role in driving front-end coding conventions and architectu

Building web applications & web sites for clients in 6 continents, including Hawthorn FC and the Government of Zimbabwe 😯.

HTML, CSS, JavaScript, SASS, jQuery, CodeIgniter, WordPress

Taught Thai kids how to build standards-based web sites.

Worked as ESL Instructor at Siam Technology College.

Pursued a Bachelor of Science in Geodesy, focusing on geospatial data and mapping technologies.