Freek Gruntjes
Co-Founder & CTO at TeDa Connect
Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands
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Top SchoolFreek Gruntjes is a technology entrepreneur and CTO with 13+ years building high-performance e-commerce and cloud-native platforms, and over 15 years of industry experience leading product-grade engineering teams. As co-founder of Hipex he drove technical innovation through rapid growth and a successful acquisition, and now as Co-Founder & CTO of TeDa Connect he’s architecting a category-defining B2B marketplace that functions as an “operating system” for brand licensing. He specializes in Kubernetes-first architectures, resilient cloud infrastructure, and intelligent automation that embeds deal-making workflows into platform logic. Freek is pioneering an AI-driven “Business Request to Application” pipeline to turn business requirements into shippable features with extreme speed and feedback. Based in Amsterdam, he blends hands-on engineering roots in Magento and PHP with strategic product leadership across startups and scale-ups. Notably, he combines entrepreneurial grit with a practical focus on observability and modular systems that scale globally.
13 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
HBO Informational systems, HBO Informational systems at HAN University of Applied Sciences
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (200)
php10
backup10
charts10
sitemap-xml9
api9
api-platform9
k8s9
lighthouse9
audit9
auditing9
sentry9
ecommerce9
deduplication9
docker9
monitor9
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
HipexBV/PackApi
Feb 2018 - Aug 2021
Wrapper around Hipex hosting platform API
Contributions:2 releases, 2 PRs, 79 pushes in 3 years 6 months
hostingapiapi-platform
Fgruntjes/serverless-personal-finance
Feb 2023 - Sep 2023
Contributions:74 PRs, 148 pushes, 76 branches in 7 months
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