Summary
Roland Peelen is a versatile software engineer and founder with eight years of focused experience and over a decade building products, teams, and companies across front-end and full-stack domains. He combines hands-on engineering—shipping type-safe stacks with Rust, ReasonML, and modern front-end tooling—with product-minded leadership as Co-founder & CTO of Konfig and technical lead roles at Walnut and Tella. Known for attention to detail and pragmatic pushback on requirements, he excels at simplifying complex problems into elegant, maintainable solutions. Based in Montreux, Switzerland, he has a background that spans 3D visualization and interactive web experiences, which informs his strengths in product configurators and rich UI work. Colleagues value his efficiency and ability to lead challenging initiatives while keeping a strong focus on people and problem discovery.
8 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelors Digital Communication and Media/Multimedia, Bachelors Digital Communication and Media/Multimedia at HU University of Applied Sciences Utrecht (Hogeschool Utrecht)
Associates Architecture, Associates Architecture at HAN University of Applied Sciences
Graphic design 3d visualization and animation, Graphic design 3d visualization and animation at Roc-Nijmegen
VMBO-t Economy, VMBO-t Economy at merlet college
Dutch, English, French, German