Philipp Merz

I'm Philipp, a 24-year-old coder from Germany, currently living in the Netherlands. I'm interested in high-agency tech, applied philosophy and martial arts (practicing kickboxing).

Bachelor in Data Science, TU Eindhoven: thesis on training a DQN agent to maximise survival on a 2D grid (graded 8.5/10).
Schoolyear: first full-time employee. 3 years as frontend engineer and project manager, helped scale from 0 to 3M+ revenue.
High-agency tech: polyclaude, an experimental, LLM-based DeFi trader.

Other projects

turnstile, a minimal map of undergraduate math.
comflow, an interactive world map of trade flows in hard commodities.
axiom, managing an ecosystem through market-based interventions.
hanzi, learn to read simplified Chinese characters.
particles, a fun particle attraction sandbox.
gd-sim, gradient descent, built for a uni course.