
Groningen is a city in the north of the Netherlands and the provincial capital of the province of the same name. It is the primary base of Jan_Wilmake, who has lived in and around the city intermittently since 2012 and settled there permanently from approximately 2023.
| Period | Groningen Activity |
|---|---|
| 2012–2016 | BSc in Artificial Intelligence, University of Groningen (RUG) |
| 2018 | Employment at Target Holding and BenCompare/Topicus |
| 2022 | Code_From_Anywhere base; wildcamping |
| 2023 | ActionSchema public alpha; VentureLab North; AIGrunn conference |
| 2024 | Slimmer_AI/ClaimWise contract; NOM investor meetings; outdoor working in Drenthe |
| 2024–present | Settled residence |
The Rijksuniversiteit Groningen (RUG), founded in 1614, is one of the Netherlands' oldest universities. Wilmake completed his Bachelor of Science in Artificial Intelligence there between approximately 2012 and 2016. In 2025, he returned in a supervisory capacity, overseeing four software engineering students working on uithub-related tooling.