Summary
Bas Zoetekouw is a technical product manager with 25 years of experience bridging theoretical physics, research science, and product development for consumer electronics. Trained as a PhD in theoretical physics, he translated deep analytical and scientific-programming skills into applied R&D at Philips Research, delivering features from automatic TV/movie content analysis to EEG signal understanding. He currently shapes digital products at SURFnet while remaining an active Debian developer, contributing package and website maintenance and quality assurance to the free-software ecosystem. Comfortable moving between original research and pragmatic productization, he excels at turning scientific trends into user-ready applications. Based in the Randstad, he brings a rare mix of rigorous modeling, hands-on coding, and long-term open-source stewardship to technical strategy and execution.
25 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
VWO, VWO at Lingecollege
PhD, Theoretical Physics, PhD, Theoretical Physics at Utrecht University
Dutch, English, German, French