Niko Van Meurs
Chief Information Security Officer
Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands
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Top SchoolNiko Van Meurs is a seasoned software engineer and design-minded technology leader based in Amsterdam with 11 years of experience building products and security-conscious systems. He blends hands-on engineering, UX-forward interaction design, and entrepreneurial leadership—co-founding multiple startups (GymKey, Olympian, Riddles.io) and serving as Co-Founder/CTO while progressing into senior engineering and solutions architect roles. Currently he combines strategic security oversight as Chief Information Security Officer at Parley with ongoing product leadership as Co-Founder/CTO of GymKey, demonstrating a rare mix of CISO-level risk management and startup delivery pace. His background in interaction and industrial design (HKU, TU/e) informs pragmatic, human-centered technical decisions across front-end and backend stacks. Colleagues describe him as a maker who steadily improves systems and teams—“making the world a better place, one step at a time”—and his career shows consistent movement between creative design and robust engineering practice.
11 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
MA, Interaction Design, MA, Interaction Design at HKU (Hogeschool voor de Kunsten Utrecht)MSc, Industrial Design, MSc, Industrial Design at Eindhoven University of TechnologyInformation Design, Information Design at Mälardalen University
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Github Skills (46)
onclick9
tunnel8
proxy8
vpn7
intern7
react-modal7
docker7
minikube7
frontend6
react6
openshift6
php6
symfony6
uglifycss6
coverage6
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
nodium/nodium
Jul 2014 - Feb 2015
Contributions:91 commits, 18 pushes, 1 branch in 7 months
nikovanmeurs/react-onclickoutside
Jun 2015 - Jan 2016
Contributions:2 PRs, 6 pushes, 1 branch in 7 months
react-componentsreactonclickoutsidemixin
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