---
title: About
---
.headline
  %h2 About Ariejan
.content_wrap.nobg
  %section#middle_content
    .two_third
      %img.gravatar(src="http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/a9bfdd0cc75c857b669c37548b8bfdf9?s=120")

      :markdown

        Hi! I'm Ariejan de Vroom, a thirty-two year old Ruby on Rails developer and Software Craftsman. I live in [Breugel, the Netherlands][1] with my fiancée [Laura][2] and work full-time at [Kabisa ICT][3].

        Check me out on [Twitter][4], [Github][6] or [LinkedIn][5] to get to know me a bit better.

        If you want to contact me, please use the contact form on this page or [tweet something][4] or [send an email directly][8].

        [1]: http://maps.google.nl/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=nl&geocode=&q=eindhoven&sll=52.469397,5.509644&sspn=4.692139,10.942383&ie=UTF8&hq=&hnear=Breugel,+Noord-Brabant&ll=51.440313,5.482178&spn=4.800964,10.942383&t=h&z=7
        [2]: http://laura-oerlemans.net/
        [3]: http://kabisa.nl/
        [4]: http://twitter.com/ariejan
        [5]: http://aj.gs/linkedin
        [6]: http://aj.gs/github
        [8]: mailto:ariejan@ariejan.net

    .one_third.last
      %form(id="form1" name="form1" class="wufoo page" autocomplete="off" enctype="multipart/form-data" method="post" novalidate action="https://ariejan.wufoo.com/forms/z7x4z5/#public")

        %h3 Leave me a message

        %ul
          %li#foli1.notranslate
            %label.desc#title1(for="Field1")
              Message
              %span#req_1.req *
            %div
              %textarea#Field1.field.textarea.medium(name="Field1" spellcheck="true" rows="10" cols="50" tabindex="1" onkeyup="" required)


          %li#foli4.notranslate
            %label.desc#title4(for="Field4")
              Your name
            %div
              %input(id="Field4" name="Field4" type="text" class="field text large" value="" maxlength="255" tabindex="2" onkeyup="")
              %p.instruct#instruct4
                %small Just so I know who's talking to me.

          %li#foli2.notranslate
            %label.desc#title2(for="Field2")
              Email Address
              %span#req_2.req *
            %div
              %input(id="Field2" name="Field2" type="email" spellcheck="false" class="field text large" value="" maxlength="255" tabindex="3" required)

              %p.instruct#instruct2
                %small We won't share this with strangers.

          %li.buttons
            %div
              %a.button(href="javascript:{}" onclick="document.getElementById('form1').submit();")
                %span Send message

          %li.hide
            %label(for="comment") Do Not Fill This Out
            %textarea(name="comment" id="comment" rows="1" cols="1")
            %input(type="hidden" id="idstamp" name="idstamp" value="CUVI8NzGGu1E9xkpfytNrtxYAhGs8IrYwj0vZn2ji1c=")