Summary
Folkert Van Verseveld is a pragmatic consultant and software engineer with 12 years of broad hands-on experience across embedded systems, cloud-native stacks, and full‑stack development. He has delivered measurable impact—accelerating CI/CD on embedded platforms by 800%, boosting code coverage by 40%, and prototyping mission‑critical features far faster than expected—while teaching university courses in Linux, Python, Java, and virtualization. Self-taught from an early age and formally trained at Utrecht and the University of Amsterdam, he blends deep low-level tinkering (open source hardware and drivers) with higher-level system design and cloud practices. Comfortable in languages from C/C++ to Java, Python and C#, he prefers pragmatic solutions that keep the big picture in view. Actively collaborating on open-source projects, he pursues R&D in linguistics and embedded systems to make technology more inclusive. Based in Amsterdam, he combines rapid prototyping skills with a long-term focus on reliability and real-world impact.
12 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (VU Amsterdam)
Computer Science, Computer Science at Utrecht University
University of Amsterdam
Gymnasium, Gymnasium at Corderius College