Pelle Cate
Co-Founder And CTO at Occasion
Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands
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Top SchoolPelle Cate is a serial co-founder and hands-on CTO with 11 years of experience building robust Ruby on Rails backends, relational data models, and e-commerce platforms from the ground up. He combines deep architectural rigor with product leadership, steering infrastructure migrations, performance optimization, and long-term platform vision while mentoring cross-functional teams. Known as a tinkerer, Pelle dives into framework source code and server internals to solve thorny problems rather than only applying libraries, which keeps his systems pragmatic and future-proof. His career spans founding and scaling Occasion and building Vinebase’s wine knowledge marketplace, demonstrating a consistent track record of shipping reliable, data-driven products. Based in Amsterdam, he pairs encyclopedic technical knowledge with an entrepreneurial mindset that prioritizes sustainable engineering culture and measurable business outcomes.
11 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
B.Mus. Art of Sound (Music technology - Recording - Producing), B.Mus. Art of Sound (Music technology - Recording - Producing) at Koninklijk Conservatorium - Royal ConservatoireVWO Natuur en Techniek, VWO Natuur en Techniek at Het Nieuwe Eemland
Dutch, English, German, French
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Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
GetOccasion/caprese
Dec 2017 - Dec 2024
An opinionated Rails library for creating JSONAPI servers that lets you focus on customizing the behavior of your endpoints rather than the dirty work of setting them up
Contributions:14 pushes, 5 branches, 1 tag in 7 years 1 month
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GetOccasion/ahoy
Mar 2018 - Jan 2025
Contributions:2 pushes, 2 branches in 6 years 11 months
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