Summary
Jaap Groeneveld is a seasoned engineering leader with 13 years of experience building and scaling cross-functional teams and products from hands-on engineering to director-level strategy. Based in Hamburg, he currently leads a 37-engineer organization across backend, frontend, SRE and mobile, translating executive vision into measurable, customer-centric engineering goals. He blends technical depth—from mobile and backend systems in Java, Ruby and Go to cloud-native deployments—with a strong track record in team coaching, hiring and process design to raise engineering craft. Former roles as Staff Engineer and Engineering Manager at Jimdo and XING underline his ability to move between hands-on technical leadership and people management. He also consults on testing, product scoping and architecture, and maintains a technical blog, signalling a commitment to continuous learning and knowledge sharing.
13 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Diplom (Masters) Computer Science, Diplom (Masters) Computer Science at University of Bremen
English, German, Portuguese