Niels Gouman
Product Manager at Leave Dates
Dordrecht, South Holland, Netherlands
Summary
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Top SchoolNiels Gouman is a product manager with nine years of experience bridging business and engineering to launch SaaS products that align tightly with market needs. He combines a background in software development and technical project management with hands-on product discovery, rapid MVP delivery, and iterative optimization to maximize ROI. Niels has guided startups through scaling challenges—eliminating friction, automating workflows and shaping growth strategy—while acting as the key liaison between customers, investors and engineering. His open-source front-end work on a Hugo theme shows attention to UX, performance and SEO details, reflecting a practical focus on shipping polished, high-impact product experiences. Based in Dordrecht, he pairs entrepreneurial instincts from running training and consultancy ventures with formal training in business informatics and application development.
9 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Business Informatics, Bachelor's degree, Business Informatics at Avans University of Applied SciencesVMBO-TL, VMBO-TL, VMBO-TL, VMBO-TL at Insula CollegeMBO-4, Application developer, MBO-4, Application developer at Davinci College
Dutch, English
Github Skills (6)
html10
theme-development10
hugo10
css9
javascript8
seo7
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
monkeyWzr/hugo-theme-cactus
Oct 2020 - Oct 2020
Cactus theme for hugo
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:8 commits, 17 PRs, 8 comments in 15 days
Contributions summary:Niels primarily focused on enhancing the Hugo theme's functionality and user experience. They implemented an option to disable pagination and display all posts in the archive, directly modifying the list template. They also added a canonical tag to improve SEO and optimized font loading for faster performance. Additionally, the user duplicated the blog post layout, indicating further customization of blog post presentation.
hugo
Nizzlay/hugo-cactus-enhanced
Oct 2020 - Aug 2022
Cactus theme for hugo
Contributions:10 PRs, 12 pushes, 28 branches in 1 year 10 months
cactushugohugo-theme
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