Reinier Noorda was born on October 10th 1988 in Nieuwegein, the Netherlands. He obtained a master’s degree in Computer Science (Game and Media Technology) at Utrecht University in 2012, after obtaining a bachelor’s degree in Computer Science at the same university in 2010. For his master’s thesis he completed a project on deducing curve parameters from road points with the purpose of improving storage efficiency and smoothing the representation of road curves on geographic information systems, carried out in TomTom, the Netherlands. He has seven years of (part-time) working experience in application development, which he started on during bachelor’s studies. In 2013 he started working full-time for Resolume, a company that creates live video editing and projection software in Den Haag, the Netherlands. There he worked as a C++ software developer until august 2016.