July 2026

Welcome to my personal site. My name is Pieter-Jan Nefkens and I live in The Netherlands with my girlfriend and our two daughters. On this site I am writing all sorts of things related to IT technology, primarily focused on networking, how technology and innovation drives change my view on life and what’s happening in the world. This site is completely personal and only reflects my personal opinion.

I’ve started this site in 2017 when I joined the Cisco Insider Champion program. I am proud and honoured to still be in the program. Sadly the Covid period has changed my life drastically as I caught long covid and am now limited in my energy. I’ve been managing it, recovering, falling back, and learning from it. Trying to understand Long Covid has helped me in getting back up to my feet (up to so far), and it also led me to build an app especially for people with chronic energy limitations. The app is called Crono Care Coach and is on the Apple App Store (I’m working on Android). I plan to update this site with my knowledge of Long Covid.

I changed jobs on 1 April 2018 (no joke). I am now working both for the Dutch government as a network consultant as well as my own company Nefkens Software & Advies. Before the job change I briefly worked with Ya Works and before that I was jointly running a family business in IT together with my father, mother and brother. I won’t write down my full bio here, but a brief overview can give you an idea of who I am. For the past year’s I’ve been involved as a (network) architect/consultant for a wide variaty of companies. I always try to understand the business (and processes) before I can solve a problem with technology.

Finding the right balance between work, personal life, blogging, hopefully podcasting in 2026 and managing the chronic conditions is tough. I do my best to keep up in IT, technology, strategic consulting, and of course several hobbies.