Sebass Van Boxel
Regional Director, Solutions Engineering, EMEA at poolside
Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands
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Top SchoolSebass Van Boxel is a seasoned solutions engineering leader with 9 years of experience scaling enterprise teams and go-to-market motion across EMEA, now serving as Regional Director, Solutions Engineering, EMEA at poolside.ai. He built and doubled high-performing teams at GitHub while driving 40% YoY enterprise seat growth, 100%+ YoY AI product adoption, zero attrition, and improved diversity—evidence of his focus on people-first leadership and operational rigor. A former product engineering manager and senior frontend engineer at WeTransfer, he pairs hands-on technical credibility with strategic customer-facing impact, including contributions to GitHub’s core codebase and internal tooling. He blends product, engineering and sales fluency—having even stepped in as Interim Sales Director—to accelerate revenue and adoption in complex enterprise environments. Based in Amsterdam with an MS in Cybersecurity from Georgia Tech, he brings a rare mix of developer empathy, security-aware thinking, and a creative background in media and production. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic coach who loves helping people win while shipping measurable business results.
9 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Cybersecurity (MS), Cybersecurity (MS) at Georgia Institute of TechnologyStudio Production Digital Communication and Media/Multimedia, Studio Production Digital Communication and Media/Multimedia at Northern Arizona UniversityBachelor's Degree International Media And Entertainment Management, Bachelor's Degree International Media And Entertainment Management at Breda University of Applied SciencesHAVO Economics and Society, HAVO Economics and Society at Newman-College
Dutch, English
Stackoverflow
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429kreached
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Github Skills (171)
github-advanced-security10
terraform10
codeql10
javascript10
sarif10
shieldsio10
azure10
artifact10
probot10
typescript10
membership10
react-native-component10
android10
viewport10
documentation10
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
SvanBoxel/node-circle-gke
Mar 2019 - Jan 2024
CI/CD using CircleCI and Google Kubernetes Engine
Contributions:22 PRs, 95 pushes, 23 branches in 4 years 10 months
gcpapp-engineci-cdgoogle-kubernetes-enginekubernetes
SvanBoxel/spotify-action
Mar 2019 - Feb 2020
Contributions:4 releases, 24 commits, 6 PRs in 11 months
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