Software engineer and entrepreneur with 7 years of experience as CTO and co-founder of BubblyDoo, scaling the company from inception to €5M in revenue. Deep expertise in web platform technologies. Comfortable across the full stack, from building complicated frontends and backends to managing teams, handling operations and strategy. Passionate about solving hard technical problems, going deep, and getting things done. I love beautiful APIs. Looking to get out of my comfort zone in next role.
Experience
BubblyDoo
2019 – 2026CTO, Co-Founder
- Built tech to scale from 0 to €5M and 175k books per year
- Hired and led team of 4 software engineers
- Involved in every aspect of running a startup
- Launched in 25+ countries, 10+ printing integrations
Ottomatisch
2015 – presentSelf-employed
- Made websites for small businesses during studies
Projects
BubblyDoo Personalization Platform
- Platform that powers all BubblyDoo's personalization and rendering
- Renderer built on web technologies, highly optimized for performance
- Consists of renderer, visual editor, Photoshop plugin, backends, etc.
- Foundations open sourced: react-done-tracker, uxp-toolkit
- Improved and rewritten with learnings of 7 years
BubblyDoo Website & Backend
- Millions of visitors every year
- Built on Next.js and Cloudflare Workers
- Data analysis with dbt, Looker Studio and PostHog
Education
Antwerp Management School, ESSCA Shanghai
2019 – 2020Master of Global Management — China-Europe Business
University of Antwerp
2018 – 2019Master of Science — Computer Engineering
University of Antwerp
2015 – 2018Bachelor of Science — Computer Engineering
National University of Singapore
2019Exchange semester
Technologies
Exceptional: Web Platform, Javascript, Typescript, React, Next.js, State management, Cloudflare Workers & Platform, AWS Lambda, Node.js, Bundlers, Puppeteer
Very good: Agentic engineering, PostgreSQL, dbt, Git, Docker, CI/CD, Observability, Testing methodologies, Vitest, Ruby, Angular, Vue
Good: Python, C, Queues, Durable workflows, CAD
Languages
- Dutch: native
- English: fluent
- Spanish: intermediate
- French: intermediate
- Mandarin Chinese: lower intermediate
Interests
Cooking, Reading, Learning, Politics, Economics, History, Being creative, Design, Piano, 3D printing, DIY, Running, Trains, Education, Future of Europe, China, Making videos, Society & technology, Writing
Recognitions
Deloitte Fast 50 Belgium2024
9th place, with BubblyDoo