# Steven Vandevelde (@tokono.ma)

Profile: https://sifa.id/p/tokono.ma
Headline: Web Engineer

## About

A web engineer who specialises in distributed tech where user agency takes precedence.

## Career

- **Software Engineer** (Sep 2023 - Present)
  Freelance · Remote
  During this time I've been doing freelance work for various people and companies. I focused on distributed computing work initially, but now doing all kinds of web and software development work.
- **Software Engineer at Fission (Codes)** (Dec 2019 - Aug 2023)
  Full-time · Remote
  At this startup I was responsible for the building out the SDK with examples, implementing a protocol called UCAN, adding features to the API, and building web applications that consumed the SDK. This is where my distributed computing and cryptography journey began.
- **Web Engineer at MetaLab, Ltd.** (Aug 2015 - Nov 2019)
  Full-time · Remote
  Here I made websites and web applications of various sizes, both frontend and backend. This included things such as creating an entirely custom CMS from scratch, writing complex database queries, making beautiful websites, and the occasional React Native.
- **Web Engineer at Mr. Henry** (May 2011 - May 2015)
  Full-time · On-site
  At my first job I built accessible design-heavy websites along with some playful canvas animations, backed with the in-house Ruby CMS system, along with other backends written in Golang and PHP.

## Projects

- **Diffuse** — https://elements.diffuse.sh (Feb 2011 - Present)
  A project I've been working on since before the beginning of my career. It's taken a lot of different shapes, but still revolves around the same core idea: listen to your audio files from the cloud or your machine. The latest iteration is local-first, cooperative and malleable software.
- **Shikensu** — https://github.com/icidasset/shikensu-gren (Sep 2016 - Aug 2025)
  A library I wrote in several languages. It allows you to build static websites, among other things, without confirming to a specific directory structure.
- **Open Distributed Data** — https://github.com/oddsdk (Dec 2019 - Aug 2023)
  This is the SDK I was responsible for back when I worked for a startup called Fission. It allowed for fully distributed web application without requiring a custom backend.

## Skills

### Technical
- Angular
- Cryptography
- CSS
- Deno
- Elixir
- Elm
- Functional Programming
- Go
- Golang
- Haskell
- HTML
- JavaScript
- Node.js
- Phoenix Framework
- PHP
- Progressive Web Apps
- Python
- React
- React Native
- REST APIs
- Ruby
- Ruby on Rails
- Rust
- Software Engineering
- Svelte
- TypeScript
- Vue.js
- Web Development
- WordPress
### Security
- Cybersecurity
### Other
- Content addressing
- Distributed Computing
- IPFS
- SDK
- Tauri

## Involvement

### Open Source
- Icidasset/diffuse
- Autonome/singular
- Unternet-co/applets
- Fireproof-storage/fireproof
- Borewit/tokenizer-http
- Unternet-co/client
- Unternet-co/web-applets
- Gordonbrander/spellcaster
- Dxos/dxos
- Icidasset/radical-edward
- Fireproof-storage/connect
- Icidasset/blue-sushi
- Hacdias/webdav

## Languages

- Dutch (native)
- English (full professional)
- French (elementary)

## Links

- Website: https://tokono.ma
- Tangled: https://tangled.org/tokono.ma/diffuse/
- github: https://github.com/icidasset
- bsky: https://bsky.app/profile/diffuse.sh