Ana Goessens
Co-Founder at Utrecht University of Applied Sciences
Randstad, Netherlands
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Top SchoolAna Goessens is a founder and hands-on technologist with nine years of experience building practical decentralized identity and verifiable credential infrastructure from concept to developer-friendly SaaS. As CEO of Animo Solutions and co-founder of Paradym, she focuses on interoperability, EU-compliant standards, and APIs that make complex cryptographic workflows accessible to product and developer teams. She blends engineering, research and teaching—supervising software engineering theses and leading student teams—while drawing on an earlier background in psychology and research to prioritize human-centered design. Ana’s career spans applied ML and CDN log analytics to blockchain proofs-of-concept, reflecting a pragmatic approach to innovation that balances regulatory nuance with product usability.
9 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Psychology, Psychology at Rijksuniversiteit GroningenBachelor of Applied Science - BASc, Information Technology, Bachelor of Applied Science - BASc, Information Technology at HU University of Applied Sciences Utrecht (Hogeschool Utrecht)Master's degree, Child and Youth Psychology, Master's degree, Child and Youth Psychology at Utrecht University
Dutch, English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (31)
wallet10
decentralized-identity10
hyperledger-indy10
uport10
identity10
decentralized-identifiers10
ssi10
verifiable-credentials10
hyperledger-aries10
react-native9
ios9
typescript9
android9
hyperledger8
command-line-interface8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
animo/easy-ssi
Dec 2020 - Feb 2021
The Easy SSI project aims to make the setup of self-sovereign identity solutions and the integration of self-sovereign identity functionality into any project as easy as possible.
Contributions:23 commits, 11 pushes in 2 months
ssisovereignself-sovereign-identityaimsidentity
anagoessens/aries-framework-javascript
Aug 2021 - May 2025
Aries Framework JavaScript (Built using TypeScript)
Contributions:2 pushes, 4 branches in 3 years 9 months
aries-frameworkjavascript-frameworkjavascriptframeworkaries
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