Jacco Taal
Head Of Engineering at HomeWizard
Rijswijk, South Holland, Netherlands
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Top SchoolJacco Taal is an experienced engineering leader and serial founder with a PhD in Electrical Engineering from Delft University of Technology and over a decade of hands-on experience building mobile-first video platforms and resilient backend systems. He co-founded multiple startups (SpongeTV, Bitnomica, Vidacle, Vidicrowd) that commercialized peer-to-peer and Lifeshare technologies to cut streaming costs and enable collaborative video experiences, and today he leads engineering and agile transformation at HomeWizard. As CTO he blends architecture, R&D and product-focused execution, has led teams delivering services used by millions, and routinely bridges academia and industry through EU research collaborations. Known for mentoring teams and hiring across hardware and mobile stacks, he’s currently open to consulting or senior technical roles where his startup-to-scale experience and pragmatic product mindset can accelerate growth. An engineer at heart, he often moves between deep technical work and company-level strategy, making him comfortable both shipping core components and setting long-term technology roadmaps.
12 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Hoekse Hill School, Hoek van Holland, The NetherlandsP. Elextrical Engineering, P. Elextrical Engineering at De Haagse Hogeschool / The Hague University of Applied SciencesPh.D. Electrical Engineering Informatics Computer Science, Ph.D. Electrical Engineering Informatics Computer Science at Delft University of Technology
English
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Github Skills (17)
scroll8
smooth8
swift6
mouse6
sqlalchemy6
enums6
smooth-scrolling6
ios6
codable6
reverse5
macos5
java-agent5
homebrew5
java5
database-access5
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
jrtaal/FontAwesomeKit
Jan 2016 - Sep 2020
Contributions:2 pushes, 1 tag in 4 years 8 months
ioniconsfonticonfoundationfont-library
jrtaal/libavwrapper
Mar 2015 - Apr 2021
Contributions:3 pushes, 1 tag in 6 years 2 months
pythonpython-wrapperpython3avconvcli
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