Koen Bok
CEO at Pitch
Amsterdam, North Holland, Spain
Summary
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Top SchoolKoen Bok is a product-focused technology CEO with 14 years of experience leading design-driven engineering teams and startups. As CEO of Framer since 2015 he blends product, design and engineering to build a professional website platform, building on a track record that includes co-founding Sofa (acquired by Facebook) and product design work on Messenger and Instagram Ads. He advises CodeSandbox, sits on Pitch's board, and invests through Festina, combining operator experience with early-stage company support. Hands-on across the stack, he contributes to open-source projects such as the Cactus static site generator—improving first-time UX, build performance (forked webserver, gzip) and tooling to surface unused static files. Based in Amsterdam with ties to Spain and a degree in Mass Communication from the University of Amsterdam, he pairs product intuition with engineering pragmatism.
14 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Mass Communication/Media Studies, Mass Communication/Media Studies at University of Amsterdam
Github Skills (15)
django210
python10
django10
web-server9
webconfig9
template-tag9
template-tags9
webserver9
web-config9
gzip8
compression8
gunzip8
compress8
javascripts3
javascript3
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
eudicots/Cactus
Oct 2011 - Oct 2015
Static site generator for designers. Uses Python and Django templates.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:132 commits, 1 PR, 5 pushes in 4 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Koen primarily contributed to the functionality and user experience of the "cactus" static site generator. They fixed template tag errors, improved user messages for better first-time experiences, and implemented build optimizations like forking the webserver and adding gzip compression. They also added features like reporting unused static files and made improvements to the upload progress.
pythonstatic-sitejinja2djangodjango-templates
framer/moonbase
Oct 2015 - May 2017
Your base on the moon
Contributions:38 commits, 1 PR, 42 pushes in 1 year 7 months
moonreactnextjs
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