Jesper Paardekooper
Co-Founder & CTO at Rinkel
Randstad, Netherlands
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Top SchoolJesper Paardekooper is a pragmatic engineering leader and co-founder who has spent 11+ years turning web and telecom ideas into production-grade SaaS. As CTO of Rinkel he helped build a mobile-first telephony platform that scaled to 10k+ active users and earned the company repeated recognition as one of the Netherlands’ fastest-growing startups and a €1M Series A. He combines hands‑on full‑stack chops (React, WebRTC, Node, Asterisk, Docker, Ansible) with operator experience from freelance and agency work for clients like EcoChain and Erasmus University. Jesper is equally comfortable shipping product features and shaping platform reliability, and he thrives on modernizing legacy telecom flows into simple, mobile workflows. A detail that’s not obvious: his background spans both infrastructure-focused ICT roles and product-driven engineering, which helps him bridge ops and developer priorities while scaling teams and systems.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
VMBO, VMBO at Jacob van LiesveldtMedewerker Beheer ICT, Medewerker Beheer ICT at Albeda College, the NetherlandsBachelor of Information Technology Software Engineering, Bachelor of Information Technology Software Engineering at Rotterdam University of Applied SciencesICT-Beheerder, ICT-Beheerder at Alfa-college
English, Dutch
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (123)
asterisk10
javascript10
app-framework10
appsflyer10
nodejs-client10
typescript10
android10
mobile10
nodejs10
ios10
react-native10
expo10
web-framework10
frontend10
react10
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
koninklijke-collective/koning_mailchimp_signup
Apr 2016 - Oct 2022
TYPO3 Extension: MailChimp sign up form
Contributions:1 PR, 6 pushes, 2 branches in 6 years 6 months
mailchimptypo3-extension
jp1987/talisman-esb-connector
Oct 2016 - Aug 2018
Contributions:1 PR, 6 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year 11 months
esbjavascripttalisman
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