My name is Robert and I was born in 1963. I may have seen the dawn of computing and electronic music and I always feel grateful for it. I learned BASIC programming at highschool (1980's) and got a 10- for my graduation practicum (Physics) because perfect programs do not exist. However I learned I was good at it. Learned COBOL, got my first job as a software developer using dBASE and Clipper on a dual floppy IBM 8086 PC. I wrote applications for sales management and point of sale systems while consulting a Credit Rating Service Provider. I got hired and developed one of the first fraud detection systems for GSM telecom operators, operating under the name NetEconomy, later aquired by FiServ. Got fired, had to choose between milk or pizza, no money, deep burnout. Sad story. Decided to build my own Fraud Detection system and founded Business Forensics in 2010 with the help of a Venture Capitalist. Almost pulled the plug one year later because nobody understood early AI concepts like profiling and change detection. 'Looks good, but what does it do?' Won a big innovation award from the Ministry of Defense, which triggered interest from a major Dutch bank. This was in 2014. Amazing success story until I retired in 2020 and BF was aquired by a German company. I am now in my 'living happily ever after phase' at the age of 61. I've been chasing childhood dreams since 2020, started a YouTube channel about modular synthesis - the Cinematic Laboratory - and I now have 17.000 subscribers. For a microniche, this is a lot of people. In 2025 I posted a video about AI aided software development. I used it to create fancy audio visualizations for music and bleeps, bloops. Especially bleeps look amazing when you see them come to life. This video caught the attention of DVBE25 and here I am, ready to shake some trees.My main social is: youtube.com/@cinematiclaboratory.
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