Jorrit Devries
Chief Representative Officer I Director NBSO Los Angeles
Weesp, North Holland, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJorrit Devries is a commercial leader and cross-border strategist with over a decade of experience building go-to-market engines for global technology and media companies and startups across Europe and the United States. He has led global commercial teams at Spotify, Samsung and Vodafone, took an early-stage AI product to revenue in the US as CEO, and recently stepped into a senior government role as Chief Representative for the Kingdom of the Netherlands in Los Angeles, shaping trade and investment strategy ahead of the 2028 Olympics. Equally comfortable in investor rooms and board meetings, he has led multimillion-dollar venture rounds and operationalized market entry as a fractional CEO and founder of a strategic advisory practice. A practical technologist at heart, he has contributed backend concurrency work to a notable open-source 3D engine, reflecting hands-on engineering curiosity beneath a commercial career. Fluent in navigating the intersection of economic policy, capital markets and enterprise, he combines operator grit with diplomatic stewardship to connect Dutch innovation to Southern California opportunity.
13 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Commercial Leadership, Commercial Leadership at London Business SchoolBachelor of Laws - LLB Law, Bachelor of Laws - LLB Law at Radboud UniversityCommunications Management, Communications Management at HU University of Applied Sciences Utrecht (Hogeschool Utrecht)
English, Dutch, German
Github Skills (13)
engine10
c-language10
cpp10
cprogramming-language10
multithreading10
rendering8
render8
directx4
csharp3
opengl3
python3
metal3
vulkan3
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
OGRECave/ogre
Feb 2013 - Jun 2013
scene-oriented, flexible 3D engine (C++, Python, C#, Java)
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:22 commits in 4 months
Contributions summary:Jorrit implemented a work queue implementation for the Microsoft Concurrency Runtime within the Ogre 3D engine. The implementation utilizes the default scheduler, indicating an attempt to leverage multi-threading capabilities. The primary focus was integrating this concurrency mechanism to handle background tasks within the engine. The user encountered a resource-related runtime error, which was deemed not critical enough to resolve.
metalcpppythonogre3d3d-engine
IJsfontein/TouchScript
Oct 2021 - Nov 2021
Complete multi-touch solution for Unity: iOS, Android, Windows, TUIO.
Contributions:18 commits, 4 PRs, 41 pushes in 15 days
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