Rens Reinders
Technisch Directeur at Rapide Software BV
Groningen, Groningen, Netherlands
Summary
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Top SchoolRens Reinders is a pragmatic technical director and co-founder with over two decades building scalable web applications and platforms from MVP to market-fit. He specializes in guiding startups and SMEs to validate ideas quickly through focused, cost-conscious engineering—hands-on across MySQL, Node, PHP/Laravel, Vue/React, C#/.NET and cloud-native tooling like Docker/Kubernetes. Since 1999 he leads Rapide Software and co-created products for financial services (DossierData), accounting collaboration (Mijn Kantoor) and integrations (Blackbirds Connect), combining strategic product thinking with day-to-day development. Former instructor at Hanzehogeschool, he balances technical depth with a business-first mindset and a knack for motivating teams via approachable, pragmatic leadership. Outside work he stays current on tech trends, composes electronic music and brings practical maker instincts to projects—useful when turning prototypes into production-ready systems.
8 years of coding experience
Bachelor, ICT, Bachelor, ICT at Hanze
English, Dutch
Github Skills (35)
gitbook10
shopping-cart9
markdown9
opencart9
php9
nmbrs9
cart8
documentation8
toolchain8
commerce8
ecommerce7
git7
open-source7
sdk7
php-api7
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
rensreinders/hellohi.connector.nmbrs
Nov 2020 - Apr 2022
NMBRS PHP SDK
Contributions:11 releases, 2 reviews, 16 commits in 1 year 5 months
phpsdkphp-frameworknmbrsphp-sdk
rapideinternet/hellohi.middleware.oauth
Aug 2019 - May 2020
Contributions:5 releases, 5 pushes, 5 tags in 8 months
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