Summary
Jelle Akkerman is an engineer-designer with 14 years of experience who blends product-minded interaction design with deep hands-on engineering, particularly in ClojureScript which he’s used professionally for about a decade. He’s shipped editor fundamentals and AI-driven prototyping at Pitch, led startups as CTO/founder, and is currently building a novel electronic musical instrument due to ship in autumn 2025. Comfortable across JavaScript, Python, Lua and C++, he thrives on ambiguous, messy problems and uses systems thinking and collaborative workshops to turn them into tangible, innovative solutions. Based in Trentino–Alto Adige, he brings a rare mix of design education, early coding roots, and product leadership—often tackling R&D and prototyping that bridges hardware, audio, and software.
14 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS Communication & Multimedia Design, Bachelor of Science - BS Communication & Multimedia Design at NHL Hogeschool
Havo, Havo at SG De Nieuwe Veste Coevorden
Dutch, English, Esperanto, French, Russian, German, Italian