Summary
Aspasia Beneti is an engineering manager and hands-on technologist with over a decade of experience building cloud-native SaaS and API-first systems while scaling engineering organizations. She has led product development and engineering teams across startups and NGOs, blending Agile transformation, technical architecture, and inclusive leadership to deliver reliable distributed systems. A Clojure practitioner and contributor through work with Dyne.org and ClojureBridgeNL, she combines functional programming insight with practical cloud experience from real-time bidding and AWS-driven projects. As founder of Surreal Turtle she advises on software and agile practices, mentoring developers and fostering high-performing cultures. Her academic background in AI (MSc, University of Amsterdam) underpins a data-informed approach to product decisions and platform design. Based in Amsterdam, she brings both entrepreneurial grit and a track record of turning complex requirements into production-ready solutions.
11 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
BSc, Computer Science, BSc, Computer Science at University of Liverpool
MSc, Artificial Intelligence, MSc, Artificial Intelligence at University of Amsterdam
Certification, Specialist Of Computer Applications, Certification, Specialist Of Computer Applications at Korelko