Chris de Gruijter

HI, I'M CHRIS

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based in KL, Malaysia.

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I'm Chris de Gruijter, a Data-Driven Digital Marketing Specialist

I turn data into decisions and campaigns into revenue. With 22 years in digital marketing — from managing MYR 150K+ monthly ad budgets for insurance giants to raising MYR 7 million for social causes — I've learned that great marketing lives at the intersection of analytical rigor and creative instinct. I build strategies grounded in real numbers, not hunches.

Date of Birth:

23 December 1987

Location:

KL, Malaysia
222222

Years of experience

1

Media Buying

Your ads, placed where your customers actually look. I manage campaigns across Google, Meta, and display networks — turning ad spend into measurable revenue, not just impressions.

2

Conversion Optimization

More conversions from the traffic you already have. I analyze your funnel, test what works, and fix what doesn't — because driving traffic to a leaky bucket is just expensive water play.

3

Lead Generation

Qualified leads that actually pick up the phone. Using AI-powered targeting and proven nurture sequences, I build pipelines that fill your CRM with prospects ready to buy — not just browse.

4

Business Development

New markets, strategic partnerships, and revenue channels you haven't tapped yet. I help you identify growth opportunities and build the relationships that turn them into real business.

5

Data Analytics

Dashboards that tell you what to do, not just what happened. I turn your raw data into clear, actionable insights — so every marketing decision is backed by evidence, not guesswork.

6

Development & Scripting

Custom tools that save hours, not create headaches. From marketing automation scripts to full web applications, I build solutions that make your processes faster and your team more productive.

Dark developer workstation with code on monitors representing AI coding configuration
Development
26 March, 2026
12 min

How I Configured Claude Code: Agents, Hooks, Skills, and a 4-Layer Config System

Claude Code is one of those tools that's useful out of the box, but becomes genuinely powerful once you invest a couple of hours in configuration. The defaults are fine. A well-designed config system that persists across every project, loads automatically, and keeps Claude informed about your standards, agents, and workflows — that's something different. I spent time building exactly that: a 4-layer configuration system that spans global rules, workspace-level context, agency-level context, and per-project detail. It's version-controlled, symlinked so changes propagate everywhere instantly, and includes 29 specialist sub-agents, a hooks system that auto-formats and checks code after every edit, slash command skills, and persistent memory across sessions. This post documents how the whole thing works.

Claude Code
AI
developer tools
Secure Linux development environment with containers and terminal
Development
25 March, 2026
12 min

How I Built a Bulletproof Vibe-Coding Environment on Linux

Vibe-coding with AI is genuinely useful. Claude, Gemini, Copilot — these tools write real code, fast. But they also introduce a threat surface that most developers aren't thinking about. The AI can suggest a package name that doesn't exist and a malicious lookalike gets installed instead (slopsquatting). An IDE extension with broad file access can read your <code>.env</code> files and exfiltrate API keys. A compromised npm install script can do damage before you've even looked at the code. I spent a few days building an environment that lets me vibe-code freely without any of those risks. This post documents exactly how it works, what it protects against, and how I use it day-to-day.

linux
security
containers

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