Roy Van Kaathoven
CTO at Pomona
Taipei, Taiwan
Summary
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RockstarRoy Van Kaathoven is a polyglot CTO with 12 years of experience building scalable, pragmatic software and leading engineering teams across startups and product companies. Based in Taipei, he blends hands-on full‑stack development with architecture and product ownership, having led initiatives from enterprise output-management engines to social live video platforms. He keeps skills near the bleeding edge, currently focusing on blockchain, decentralized apps, reactive programming, and distributed systems. An active open-source contributor, Roy has improved core blockchain node code in the widely used Java-Tron project and shipped UI and UX enhancements for Tronscan, demonstrating both backend rigor and frontend polish. He favors simplicity and craftsmanship, turning complex systems into maintainable, high-performance solutions while continuously prototyping novel ideas.
12 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
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Github Skills (32)
javascript10
windows10
java10
refactor10
javas10
front-end-development10
blockchain10
dotnet-core10
refactoring10
csharp10
react10
launcher10
software-design9
user-interface9
tokenize9
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
tronscan/tronscan-frontend
May 2018 - Feb 2020
Tronscan Frontend
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:1 release, 230 commits, 65 PRs in 1 year 9 months
Contributions summary:Roy primarily focused on front-end development, implementing user interface enhancements and features for the Tronscan frontend. Their contributions included showing total rewards on the representatives page, adding a slide, integrating a live ranking button for votes, and incorporating a datepicker for token creation. They also worked on fixing address links and improving decimal formatting in the user interface.
tronscanreactfrontendtron-protocol
tronprotocol/java-tron
Jan 2018 - Dec 2018
Java implementation of the Tron whitepaper
Role in this project:Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:54 commits, 33 PRs, 4 pushes in 10 months
Contributions summary:Roy primarily refactored and reorganized core Java code related to the Tron blockchain implementation. They moved build logic from the `Peer` class to a dedicated `PeerBuilder` class, enhanced type safety by creating a `PeerType` class, and implemented validation checks. These changes aimed at improving code structure, maintainability, and potentially, overall performance of the blockchain node's components.
tronblockchainsubgraphwhitepaperjava
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