Gijs Nelissen
Co-Founder at Prezly – Frictionless story management
Brussels Metropolitan Area Belgium
Summary
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SeniorGijs Nelissen is a founder and product-focused technologist with 11 years of experience building Prezly, a SaaS platform that streamlines PR and story management for clients like Audi, IKEA, and Samsung. Based in Brussels, he blends entrepreneurial grit with hands-on web craftsmanship to simplify how brands create, manage, and distribute stories across channels and timezones. He started Prezly in close collaboration with PR agencies, turning fragmented tools into a single, frictionless workflow that prioritizes storytelling over tooling. A Bootstrapper and web junkie who balances life as a dad of three, Gijs pairs practical engineering sensibilities with product empathy to deliver elegant, high-impact communication software.
11 years of coding experience
English, Dutch, French
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (127)
material-ui10
b2b10
javascript10
admin-on-rest10
browser10
rest10
payload10
react-admin10
rich-text10
admin10
react-typescript10
mongodb10
editors10
graphql10
frontend10
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
digitalbase/lifelog-nextjs
Jun 2022 - Nov 2022
News site built with NextJS, Typescript and Prezly SDK
Contributions:115 commits, 12 PRs, 52 pushes in 4 months
reacttailwindcssnextjs-typescriptsdkprezly
digitalbase/dotfiles
Dec 2016 - Nov 2021
Contributions:12 commits, 7 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years
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