Summary
Koen Romers is a pragmatic software engineer with 13 years of experience building scalable consumer apps, currently stabilising and owning the TV app platform at Pathé Thuis. He excels at turning inherited, undocumented codebases into tested, CI-driven, and deployable products—having led a rewrite using React and XState to deliver a production-ready app in seven months. Previously he drove desktop and multi-platform TV work for TIDAL, progressing to Lead Desktop App Developer while shipping Electron, WebOS and Samsung apps from a single codebase. Comfortable across front- and back-end stacks (JavaScript/TypeScript, Node, Ruby on Rails) and with mobile/embedded platforms, he combines hands-on engineering with pragmatic architecture and developer tooling. Koen also brings a creative side from running an automotive photography venture, reflecting attention to detail and aesthetic sensibility in UX. Based in the UK, he favors inclusive technical leadership and reproducible delivery over ad hoc fixes.
13 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of ICT, Mediatechnologie, Bachelor of ICT, Mediatechnologie at Hogeschool Rotterdam