Niek Van Der Maas
Owner at Axe Media B.V.
Houten, Utrecht, Netherlands
Summary
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Top SchoolNiek Van Der Maas is a seasoned founder and software engineer with 14 years of professional experience building web products and ad tech platforms from the Netherlands. He has repeatedly launched and scaled companies—founding or co-founding ventures such as Adperium, Atomx, Mininova, Undetect and Axe Media—demonstrating deep expertise in online advertising, product growth and monetization at scale. Technically hands‑on, Niek contributes to open-source browser automation projects (notably puppeteer-extra and ghost-cursor), where he implemented stealth plugins, human-like cursor behavior and service worker/UA hint support to evade detection and mimic real users. His work blends front-end polish (OBS-web, chatgpt-web) with pragmatic full‑stack JavaScript engineering and build/tooling improvements. An MSc in Software Technology underpins his pragmatic approach to shipping reliable systems, and he often pairs experimental open-source tooling with commercial productization. Less obvious: he combines advertising-scale ops knowledge (billions of monthly impressions) with low-level browser automation skills, a rare cross-section that informs both growth and anti-detection strategies.
14 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
MSc Software Technology, MSc Software Technology at Utrecht UniversityBSc ICT Software Engineering, BSc ICT Software Engineering at HU University of Applied Sciences Utrecht (Hogeschool Utrecht)
Dutch, English, German
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Github Skills (35)
puppeteer10
javascript10
testing10
css10
typescript10
postcss10
chromeless10
sc10
headless-browser10
automation10
scs10
rollupjs10
chrome10
typescript-types10
html10
Programming languages (31)
Github contributions (5)
Niek/chatgpt-web
Mar 2023 - Mar 2023
ChatGPT web interface using the OpenAI API
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:3 reviews, 219 commits, 225 PRs in 19 days
Contributions summary:Niek primarily focused on enhancing the front-end interface of the ChatGPT web application. They implemented styling using SCSS and PostCSS, and added a meta description for SEO optimization. Furthermore, the user fixed a typo in the title and made improvements to the project's build configuration, including the implementation of an ESLint configuration and removal of the adapter.
Niek/obs-web
Jun 2020 - Jan 2023
OBS-web - the easiest way to control OBS remotely
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:7 reviews, 263 commits, 313 PRs in 2 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Niek primarily focused on the front-end development of the OBS-web project, as evidenced by their commits related to the user interface and build process. They implemented initial page deployment, fixed relative URLs, added screen wake lock functionality, and integrated CSS extraction. Additionally, the user addressed build issues, improved build efficiency and created versioned bundle filenames.
obsopenbroadcasterremotelysveltewebrtc
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