Summary
Haje Kamps is an interdisciplinary operator and product leader with 14 years of experience turning storytelling, editorial craft, and AI into scalable commerce and content systems. After a decade as a journalist and creator—writing thousands of pieces for TechCrunch and building Photocritic into a 20,000+ student platform—he shifted into startups and product roles where he’s launched hardware, virtual events, and AI-powered products like The Outfit Index. At Editorialist he leads AI strategy and interim operations, building human-in-the-loop systems, recommendation engines, and editorial workflows that preserve trust while increasing throughput. He’s a systems thinker who moves easily between strategy and execution, automating the mundane while protecting human judgment where it matters. Based in Oakland, Haje combines founder grit, newsroom speed, and a nerdy enthusiasm for optimization—fun fact: he wrote a customer service book a decade ago and still applies those lessons to white-glove commerce at scale.
14 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
BA (hons), International Journalism, BA (hons), International Journalism at Liverpool John Moores University
University College London
English, Norwegian, Dutch, French, German, Spanish