Eelke Hermens.
Founder & software architect.
Hello, I'm Eelke. Tech/business hybrid. I enjoy working on hard problems with eager teams. I'm an experienced technical team lead who can inspire, prototype, build, scale and above all learn.
Highlights
- Conceived, architected and built a new high traffic news platform at nrc.nl which doubled reader engagement.
- Co-founded Cineville, an unlimited movie subscription and promotion platform with over 30k subscribers.
- Spearheaded the development of Peerby, the world’s leading platform for sharing things.
- Built a personalized digital sleep coach at Shleep, helping the world sleep a little bit better
Working history
- Currently: CTO at Shleep
- CTO at Peerby
- Co-founder & CTO at Cineville
- Information architect & development lead at NRC Media
- Board member at Young on Board Amsterdam
- Research & development at UvA New Media Studies
- Project Coordinator We Want Cinema
- Board Member Kriterion
Education
- Cum Laude - New Media Studies at University of Amsterdam
- Artificial Intelligence at Vrije Universiteit
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Personal
I live in Amterdam with my slightly annoying cat and try to write and read as much as I can.