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About Danny

Hello! I'm Danny van Kooten, a programmer from The Netherlands.

I've been building, maintaining and delivering support for open-source software as my main source of income for well over a decade now.

It started out in the summer of 2013 with me hospitalized in Vietnam due to acute appendicitis and having some time to kill while practicing bed rest. That time was used to build Mailchimp for WordPress (MC4WP), a WordPress plugin now in active use on well over 2 million websites.

More software followed while I spent several Dutch winters in Asia. In 2016, I settled down in the Netherlands to start a family.

Some things about me

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I hope that sums it up quite well and that you enjoy my work in some way.

Life outside of work

On a more personal note, I also love to walk my dog, sail small dinghies, ride my bike, eat Indian curries or homemade pizza, walk around in nature and climb rocks to counter all this time spent behind a computer.

Danny with stray dog in Koh Lanta, Thailand