Summary
Reinier Ladan is a freelance product manager and product designer with over two decades in digital product work and 12 years focused on product leadership, UX and prototyping. He combines hands-on front-end and interaction design roots from the late 90s with modern agile product ownership (Scrum/Kanban) to align teams around high-value outcomes. As founder of Digital Energy / Usevine he’s delivered products for major Dutch institutions including Schiphol, NOS, NPO, Funda and Liberty Global, often tackling complex public and media-facing systems. He thrives on dissecting thorny product problems to find the highest-impact first steps and can move between strategic roadmaps and pixel-level UX decisions. Based near Amsterdam, he’s available for remote global freelance work and occasional on-site engagements. An experienced lecturer and early web developer, he brings both practical engineering empathy and a strong usability focus to every project.
12 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Bachelor, Multimedia Producer, Bachelor, Multimedia Producer at SAE Institute
Bachelor, Communicatie & Multimedia Design (deeltijd), Bachelor, Communicatie & Multimedia Design (deeltijd) at Rotterdam University of Applied Sciences
Communicatie & Multimedia Design, Communicatie & Multimedia Design at Willem de Kooning Academy Rotterdam
Dutch, English