Nicolaas Matthijs
Chief Product Officer at Anthology Inc
Cambridge, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolNicolaas Matthijs is a product executive and technology leader with 11 years of experience designing and scaling educational technology across universities and global vendors from Cambridge. As Chief Product Officer at Anthology he leads product strategy for a holistic EdTech ecosystem, having previously driven Blackboard Learn, Ally and other teaching & learning portfolios through senior product leadership roles. He combines hands-on technical roots—from front-end development and system architecture to building REST APIs—with strategic product vision honed as a founder and consultant. Active in standards and accessibility, he serves on the IMS Global Europe board and contributed to UK parliamentary work on assistive technology, reflecting a deep commitment to inclusive learning. Notably, his background includes leading the open-source Apereo OAE project and modernizing core academic platforms at the University of Cambridge, demonstrating a rare mix of operational, open-source and policy-focused impact. Based in Cambridge, he pairs academic training in speech, text and internet technology with a pragmatic track record of shipping large-scale, accessible learning systems.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Master Computer Speech Text and Internet Technology, Master Computer Speech Text and Internet Technology at University of CambridgeBEng Computer Science (Multimedia & Communication Technology), BEng Computer Science (Multimedia & Communication Technology) at Technical University of West Flanders (Howest)
English, Dutch, French
Github Skills (37)
capistrano10
junction10
learning-management-system9
javascript9
lms9
docker9
ets9
nodejs9
react9
frontend9
canvas8
typescript8
lti8
edtech7
plugin7
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
nicolaasmatthijs/3akai-ux
Jan 2015 - Aug 2016
Contributions:107 pushes, 13 branches in 1 year 7 months
reactsakaifront-end-developmentfront-endtypescript
nicolaasmatthijs/datacultures
Jan 2015 - Mar 2015
Contributions:1 PR, 93 pushes, 37 branches in 2 months
canvasdata-visualization
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