Maarten Sikkema
Member at PESCHECK®
Oegstgeest, South Holland, Netherlands
Summary
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Top SchoolMaarten Sikkema is a seasoned technology entrepreneur and former CTO who co-founded Dutch system integrator and software firm Macaw in 1994 and scaled it from 2 to over 235 employees. He combines deep technical familiarity with strategic leadership, guiding product and engineering direction while serving on advisory and non‑executive boards for startups like Textmetrics and PESCHECK®. Now active as an investor and member at Arches Capital, he advises early-stage teams on go-to-market, technology choices, and scalable software practices. A Delft University of Technology alumnus, Maarten stays current with new technologies and development processes, blending hands-on engineering sensibility with experience in company-building. Less obvious: his background spans both creative design work (e.g., Woody Cookie) and hard systems integration, giving him a rare empathy for UX-aware enterprise solutions. He is based in Oegstgeest, Netherlands, and leverages 12+ years of formal experience alongside decades of entrepreneurial leadership.
12 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
ir, ir at Delft University of Technology
German, French
Github Skills (144)
react-redux10
bots10
chat10
conversational-ui10
concurrency10
architecture10
dotnet10
microsoft-cognitive-services10
conversational-ai10
chatbot10
orleans10
bot-framework10
adaptive-cards10
redux10
dotnet-core10
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
Maarten88/JavascriptDotnetDemo
Sep 2017 - Sep 2017
Contributions:52 commits, 15 pushes, 3 branches in 8 days
Maarten88/rrod
Mar 2017 - Jul 2018
Exploring a new web architecture with React, Redux, Orleans and Dotnet Core
Contributions:69 commits, 2 PRs, 59 pushes in 1 year 4 months
reactdotnetreact-reduxreduxarchitecture
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