Jesper 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 Liesveldt
Medewerker Beheer ICT, Medewerker Beheer ICT at Albeda College, the Netherlands
Bachelor of Information Technology Software Engineering, Bachelor of Information Technology Software Engineering at Rotterdam University of Applied Sciences
Contributions:1 PR, 6 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year 11 months
esbjavascripttalisman
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.