Jim De Beer
CTO at Based.io
Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands
Summary
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Top SchoolJim De Beer is a pragmatic CTO and serial founder based in Amsterdam with over a decade building full-stack products and teams across startups and multinational environments. He pairs deep hands-on expertise in JavaScript, V8, Node.js, React/React Native, TypeScript, Go, cloud platforms and TensorFlow with a strategic knack for translating business goals into technical roadmaps. As founder/CTO of multiple ventures including Vigour.io, Based.io and once.net, he has shipped video and media platforms, mobile experiences and infrastructure that bridge front-end polish and scalable back ends. Comfortable diving into low-level engine details or architecting cloud-native services, he moves fluidly between coding, leading teams and advising product direction. Colleagues rely on him to reduce technical risk while exploring emerging areas like smart contracts and ML-driven features. His combination of entrepreneurial grit and multilingual tech fluency makes him a reliable operator for product-first engineering initiatives.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
bs, iba, bs, iba at RSM Erasmus Universityhigh school degree, high school degree at barlaeus gymnasium
English, Dutch, spanish (intermediate)
Github Skills (94)
graph-algorithms10
realtime10
graph-database10
graph10
database9
rust9
proxy-protocol8
react8
router8
javascript7
observable7
render7
typescript7
commercial7
pubsub7
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
vigour-io/stamp
Mar 2016 - Apr 2017
Contributions:1 release, 18 PRs, 129 pushes in 1 year 1 month
stampsstampobserve
vigour-io/state
Mar 2016 - Oct 2016
Change and state management
Contributions:1 release, 50 PRs, 472 pushes in 7 months
reactstate-managementjavascriptreduxtypescript
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