- 2005DesignLearning the web by making things.
- 2013ProductDesign became code.
- EngineeringCode became systems.
- 2018WalletsSoftware for a new kind of money.
- 2021Financial infraBuilding systems where software meets regulation.
- 2022AIFrom using models to orchestrating them.
- NowBuildingAll of it, at once.
Chris Wijnia
Engineer · Founder
- Origin
- Netherlands
- Work
- Product / R&D
- Status
- Online
I build software and companies.
I work out what’s worth building next.
02 / Current
What I’m working on.
01 / Agio Digital
Building financial software.
I co-founded Agio Digital in 2021 and have been its Chief Innovation Officer since 2026.
I work across product architecture, compliance and AI: fund operations and reporting, regulated onboarding, payments, and the agents that increasingly help build it all. I still write code.
02 / AI & software
Finding useful things to do with new models.
I spend a lot of time on agents, developer tools, automation and new ways of building software.
I’m less interested in demos than in what holds up once real users, existing systems and messy constraints get involved.
03 / Independent work
Building things to see where they go.
Small software projects, open-source work, strange interfaces and ideas that start as a repository before they have a business case.
Some become useful. Some answer a question. That’s enough.
03 / Work
A few things I’ve worked on.
| Area | Span | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01 | Agio Digital | Financial software / Compliance | 2021–Now | |
| 02 | AI systems | Agents / Automation / Developer tools | 2022–Now | |
| 03 | 1GRAM | Wallet software | 2020–2021 | |
| 04 | MVRDV | Digital platform / Architecture | 2015–2019 | |
| 05 | JIJ & Overijssel | Public participation platform | 2014–2018 | |
| 06 | 100-100-100 | Sustainability campaign platform | 2014–2019 | |
| 07 | Archive | Design / Web / Software | 2007–2022 |
The work has changed a lot over the years. The habit of making things hasn’t.
04 / Trajectory
Moving down the stack as the web evolved.
05 / Notes
Notes
Things I’m working on, learning or trying to understand.
06 / Experiments
Small working things.
Games and toys built to find something out. Two of them let Jev play: chess, and a shared canvas of a million emoji.
ChessPlay Jev, a simple engine or a friend, or watch Jev play itself; in chess or any of the 960 Chess960 starting positions.
1 Million EmojisA shared canvas of a million emoji cells: drag to paint, watch everyone else’s strokes arrive live, and let Jev join in.
CWDX HealthA health dashboard for Fitbit data, with a coach that reads the same numbers. Shown here on made-up data.
07 / About
I’ve been making things on computers for most of my life.
I grew up in the Netherlands and built my first websites at thirteen.
I trained in interaction design, and design pulled me into frontend development, then engineering, product architecture and eventually company-building.
Over the years I’ve worked on websites, consumer products, distributed systems, financial systems and now AI. I don’t draw hard lines between design, engineering and product. They’re different ways of looking at the same problem.
Lately that includes regulated work: onboarding, compliance and fund reporting, where the rules shape the product as much as the users do.
I like small teams, ambitious projects, good engineering and people who can disagree without making it tedious. I still enjoy opening an empty repository and figuring something out.
I work internationally. Outside work I train Muay Thai and like chess, which I played competitively in Zwolle and taught to primary-school children there. I also build things that occasionally have no sensible commercial purpose.
08 / Contact
Making something interesting?
For companies, collaborations, technical discussions, speaking, new ventures, or a good reason I haven’t thought of.