Jorrit Van Asselt
Senior Engineering Manager at Bitvavo
Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands
Summary
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Top SchoolJorrit Van Asselt is a senior engineering leader with 12 years of experience building and scaling high-performing, cross-functional teams across fintech, travel, and payments. He specializes in leading managers and shaping technical strategy for high-risk, high-integrity domains—most recently driving crypto custody, on-chain flows and staking capabilities at Bitvavo while aligning security, compliance and finance. Skilled at migrating monoliths to service-oriented architectures, instituting OKRs/KPIs and professionalising performance processes, he has repeatedly doubled teams and raised engineering maturity in fast-moving environments. With a background in neuroscience and early hands-on iOS and tooling work, he brings analytical rigor and a practitioner’s empathy to leadership, often pairing technical depth with people development and disciplined incident management.
12 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (MS) Neurowetenschap (Neurosciences), Master of Science (MS) Neurowetenschap (Neurosciences) at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (VU Amsterdam)Bachelor of Applied Science (BASc) Moleculaire biologie, Bachelor of Applied Science (BASc) Moleculaire biologie at Hogeschool Leiden
Dutch, English
Github Skills (38)
authentication9
text-editor8
webauthn7
nes-emulator7
swift7
nitrogen7
nes6
editing6
parsing6
things6
parser6
spec6
debug6
nintendo5
apple-push-notifications5
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
Joride/nestopia
Jun 2016 - Dec 2018
Contributions:34 commits, 17 pushes, 2 branches in 2 years 6 months
gameboyemulatornintendo-entertainment-systemnesentertainment
Joride/SNES
Sep 2015 - Apr 2020
Contributions:8 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 7 months
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