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36 repositories, 10 of them public and linked below. Paid work at 5 employers: Xerdi · a typesetting company for publishers · a hospitality security company · +2.

axis 1 · repositories

  • comment2tex — Include annotated source files as LaTeX listings
  • ginvoice — Creating LaTeX invoices with a GTK GUI
  • ginvoice-template — An invoice template for the GinVoice application
  • gitinfo-lua — Display git project information in your LaTeX projects
  • la-lua-opts — Experimental extension of command-line options for LuaLaTeX
  • latex-article-2024 — An article about lua-placeholders for MAPS and TUGboat
  • lua-placeholders — Lua Placeholders for Lua(La)TeX documents
  • my-resume — Another LaTeX template for a resume/CV.
  • regulatory — A LaTeX package to create regulatory PDF documents
  • texmf-packaging — TDS tree for packaging

Internal, named but not linked — there is no public repository to link to:

  • xdp [internal]
    Xerdi's Documentation Project: the chaotic battleground for everything LaTeX — document automation, music book production, scientific writing, legal and compliance documents, literally every document.
  • xerdi.com [internal]
    The company website. Public as a running site, private as a repository

24 further repositories using LaTeX are private and are counted here but not named. Client work and internal tooling are not disclosed by name.

axis 2 · paid work

Xerdi
2021–present · Owner / software engineer
Free software for small and medium businesses. LaTeX packages (regulatory, lua-placeholders, gitinfo-lua, fmtcount), CTAN, and the TUG board as vice-president, XDAP (Xerdi's Document Automation Platform) as infrastructure-as-code, and the Axonode pilot — a scientific article authored in LaTeX and Markdown.
a typesetting company for publishers
2026 · LaTeX engineer (freelance)
LuaLaTeX float stabilisation for scientific publications.
a hospitality security company
2022–2023 · Contractor
Tested Xerdi's regulatory software; AdminLTE 2 to 3 migration, PubSub, and database structure.
a hospitality security company
2022 · Contractor
Real-time scheduling system for the company's own ERP, serving hospitality and security.
a hospitality security company
2018–2019 · Software engineer
Modular payroll and reporting system across sister companies, serving 30+ clients. CI with a Slack bot, git shell and Meteor; published to Android and iOS.
a telecom and internet provider
2017–2018 · Software engineer
Cross-platform softphone for hosted PBX (Windows, macOS, Linux, Raspbian) with encrypted provisioning.
a national association
2025 · LaTeX engineer
Document automation in LaTeX.

collaboration and own ventures

Not invoiced to an external client, so deliberately not counted on the paid axis above.

Germen Haijtema — collaboration, not invoiced
A research paper and a survey report, typeset in LaTeX with lua-placeholders. Carried out within Axonode, since discontinued.
Germen Haijtema — collaboration, not invoiced
LaTeX for the pharmacy compliance world. Ongoing.
— own venture, not a client
Document automation and LaTeX engineering inside a venture I am co-founding.

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