Jetse Koopmans
Founder at Better Than Life
Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands
Summary
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Top SchoolJetse Koopmans is a serial founder and software engineer with a decade of experience building web, mobile, voice, and immersive AR/VR products from Amsterdam. He founded and led multiple ventures—Pibit (apps, data science, voice), Better Than Life (immersive VR/AR studio), Pollie (viral polling app), Ayuto (voice-first care solutions) and Skilled (Alexa skills platform)—demonstrating an uncommon blend of product instincts and hands-on engineering. His background in academic software engineering (MSc, cum laude) and early data-science research at Blendle informs a pragmatic approach to scaling complex, data-rich applications. Jetse consistently ships customer-facing products across platforms (iOS, Android, web, voice assistants, VR) and pairs technical delivery with go-to-market focus. He often bridges emerging interfaces—voice and immersive experiences—with traditional app ecosystems to create novel user interactions. Based in Amsterdam, he prefers building small, multidisciplinary teams that turn research and prototypes into revenue-generating products.
10 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
VWO, NT, VWO, NT at St. Bonifatius CollegeMaster’s Degree, Software Engineering, GPA 8.2/10 (cum laude), Master’s Degree, Software Engineering, GPA 8.2/10 (cum laude) at University of Amsterdam
English, French, Dutch
Github Skills (40)
pix9
issue-tracking9
whatsapp8
kotlin8
android-library8
integrate8
recaptcha6
android6
photo-gallery6
giphy5
sinatra5
timer5
image5
captcha5
image-picker5
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
jetsekoopmans/last_minute_ah_diner
Oct 2015 - Feb 2017
Contributions:12 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 3 months
jetsekoopmans/kookmans
Oct 2022 - Jul 2023
Contributions:10 pushes, 1 branch in 9 months
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