Summary
Bas Beelen is a pragmatic founder and senior technologist with over 25 years of hands-on experience across frontend, backend, cloud and data engineering, and 11 years in leadership and startup roles. He builds simple, maintainable, user-focused products and has a track record of shipping secure, PCI-compliant payment orchestration and analytics stacks in high-pressure startup environments. Equally comfortable writing typed APIs and SSR frontends as managing Terragrunt/GCP infra, he champions functional programming, domain-driven design and practical DevOps. Bas mentors by example—hiring, pair-programming and leading code reviews to raise team craft—and prefers fast, experiment-driven delivery over process-heavy approaches. Outside of engineering he composes music and bakes wood-oven pizzas, a creative streak that informs his pragmatic, user-centered designs.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Msc, Computer Science, Information Architecture, Msc, Computer Science, Information Architecture at Delft University of Technology
English, Spanish, Dutch