Bastiaan Terhorst
AI & Technical Product Leadership Interim, Fractional, Advisory at Map × Territory
The Hague, South Holland, Netherlands
Summary
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Top SchoolBastiaan Terhorst is a seasoned technology leader and Group CTO with 14+ years of experience building products, teams, and resilient systems across startups and scale-ups. He scaled engineering at WeTransfer from a small team to 100 engineers, improved availability to 99.95%, and led strategic modernization and M&A technical due diligence as CTO at Relive. Now at GRESB and running Map × Territory as a coach-builder, he combines hands-on architecture with a coaching leadership style that prioritizes people and sustainable team growth. His background as a founder and product-focused engineer informs pragmatic decisions around modularity, reuse, and cost-efficient infrastructure. Trained at INSEAD and in coaching and nonviolent communication, he brings uncommon emphasis on leadership development and organizational change alongside technical delivery. Based in The Hague, he quietly balances product craftsmanship with mentoring future leaders and shipping elegant, scalable solutions.
15 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Product Management Executive Programme, Product Management Executive Programme at INSEADCoach Intensive, Coach Intensive at NONONS | Opleidingen Trainingen CoachingBS Animation, BS Animation at University of the West of EnglandMSc Media Technology, MSc Media Technology at Leiden UniversityBDes Animation, BDes Animation at Willem de Kooning AcademyNonviolent Communication Training, Nonviolent Communication Training at Connecting2Life
Github Skills (101)
crud-application10
ckeditor10
rails10
image-upload10
python-bindings10
ai-agent9
no-code9
audio-device9
api9
sample-rate9
internal-tools9
low-code9
plex9
audio-visualizer9
workflow-engine9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
kreativgebiet/rich
Sep 2011 - Jan 2015
:money_with_wings: An opinionated CKEditor editor for Rails with flexible image uploads
Contributions:266 commits, 1 push, 1 comment in 3 years 4 months
ckeditorimage-uploadrails
bastiaanterhorst/site
Sep 2019 - Jun 2023
Contributions:12 pushes in 3 years 9 months
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