Alexander Griekspoor
Co-Founder at Kirigami
Lisbon, Portugal
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Top SchoolAlexander Griekspoor is a Dutch-born software entrepreneur and investor based in Lisbon with 14 years of experience building award-winning apps for scientists and knowledge workers. He transitioned from a PhD in cell biology and postdoctoral bioinformatics into product-led software, co-founding Mekentosj/Nucleobytes and leading Papers through acquisition by Springer Nature before launching the Agenda app, which has earned multiple Apple Design Awards. Alexander combines hands-on development with product leadership, mentoring and angel investing across climate and deep-tech startups, and he often draws product ideas from his own scientific workflows. Notably, his career bridges rigorous academic research and polished consumer-grade apps, reflecting a talent for turning domain expertise into elegant, widely adopted software.
14 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
MSc Medical Biology, MSc Medical Biology at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (VU Amsterdam)PhD Cum Laude Cell Biology, PhD Cum Laude Cell Biology at Leiden UniversityHermann Wesselink College
Dutch, English, Portuguese
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (18)
localstorage9
objective-c7
macos6
garbage-collection6
underflow6
dropbox6
memory-management6
cocoa6
ios6
appkit6
key-value-store5
timers1
controller1
swift1
thread1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
nucleobytes/SwiftHEXColors
Mar 2017 - Jan 2022
Contributions:3 pushes, 2 comments in 4 years 10 months
hexuicolorhandlinghex-color
MomentaBV/discourse-agenda-banner
Mar 2023 - Sep 2023
Contributions:24 pushes in 6 months
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