Summary
Pim Messelink is a Director of Technology with 13 years of experience leading optical manufacturing innovation, currently driving process improvement and cross-border teams at Edmund Optics in Singapore. He blends deep technical expertise—rooted in a PhD in Physics and years developing fluid-jet and polishing technologies—with strong financial literacy to align engineering change initiatives to business outcomes. A Six Sigma proponent, he has led R&D and process teams that delivered patented advances and scientific publications in optical fabrication. Comfortable moving between hands-on research and strategic leadership, he has a track record of scaling complex manufacturing processes for challenging optics and mentoring multicultural teams. Notably, his career spans academic teaching, industrial research, and commercial productization, giving him rare end-to-end perspective on turning lab methods into production-ready techniques.
13 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Secondary School Beta, Secondary School Beta at Stedelijk Gymnasium Arnhem
M.Sc. Applied Physics, M.Sc. Applied Physics at Delft University of Technology
University College London
Dutch, English, German, Spanish