Summary
Francois Van Der Ven is a Lead Architect with 11 years of experience designing full-stack, mobile and cloud-native solutions for clients ranging from startups to enterprises. He combines hands-on engineering (Laravel, Symfony, React/React Native, Magento, Java, Swift/Kotlin) with strategic architecture and systems integration experience across e-commerce, financial services and identity & access management. As a pragmatic technologist he acts as the pivot between business and engineering, translating product goals into scalable, maintainable platforms and CI/CD-driven delivery. His career includes leadership roles from CTO to technical co-founder and hands-on architect positions at ASML and iO, reflecting both entrepreneurial grit and enterprise discipline. Known for experimenting with new technologies, he focuses on thoughtfully applying innovations rather than adopting them for their own sake.
11 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (MSc), Computer Science and Engineering, Master of Science (MSc), Computer Science and Engineering at Eindhoven University of Technology
VWO Atheneum N&T, VWO Atheneum N&T at Nehalennia Middelburg
English, Dutch, German