Dawid Van Der Hoven
Founder at blackplate
Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands
Summary
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Top SchoolDawid Van Der Hoven is a founder and seasoned software engineer with 11 years of experience building scalable mobile and web products, currently based in Amsterdam. He has led and shipped production React Native apps at scale—bootstrapping Vio.com's mobile product to over one million users—and has been the sole engineer driving new product validation at TomTom’s innovation studio. Comfortable across the stack, Dawid blends React Native, native iOS/Android, Node.js and cloud-native tooling to turn early-stage ideas into resilient products for startups. His background in 3D modeling, illustration and animation gives him a creative lens on UX and product craft that shows up in polished, user-focused implementations. Known for intense work ethic and rapid iteration, he now helps other early-stage teams through his company blackplate, pairing hands-on engineering with pragmatic scaling advice.
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
OakhillBridge HouseKnysna Montesorri
Afrikaans, English
Github Skills (200)
amazon-cognito10
camera10
pouchdb10
cloud-services10
obsolete10
universal-react10
solace10
html-email10
sst10
nodejs10
amazon10
expo10
frontend10
react-redux10
nunjucks10
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
dawidvdh/dotfiles
Jul 2015 - Feb 2020
Contributions:21 pushes, 2 branches in 4 years 8 months
madeagency/reactivity
Mar 2017 - Sep 2018
A Bleeding Edge React Universal Boilerplate for Power Users.
Contributions:411 commits, 98 PRs, 167 pushes in 1 year 6 months
reactuniversal-reactboilerplateedgebleeding-edge
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