Summary
Sid De Koning is an experienced product-focused technologist and online marketeer based in Amsterdam, with 15+ years of shipping software, apps and marketing-led experiences for brands like Disney, Unilever, Heineken and MTV. He blends hands-on Swift iOS/macOS development (since the early betas) with copywriting, UX design and growth strategy, often acting as the bridge between founders, designers and engineering teams. As a founder and community builder he co-created Swift Island (a sold-out, award-winning conference) and runs platforms like Aho Broeder aimed at social impact, showing he ships both commercial products and mission-driven projects. He has authored an O’Reilly technical book that sold 3,000+ copies and built internal apprenticeship programs to rapidly upskill junior engineers at large companies. Comfortable moving between code, content and comms, Sid’s strength is taking ambiguous ideas to production while leaving systems and teams stronger than he found them. He favors pragmatic, cross-disciplinary solutions—starting things, fixing what’s broken and scaling what works.
15 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Passed Course: TCP/IP and Netwerk, Passed Course: TCP/IP and Netwerk at BIT TCP/IP and Netwerk
Swift One Day Swift iOS 8, Swift One Day Swift iOS 8 at Big Nerd Ranch
Passed Programming, Passed Programming at RMI: iPhone Development for Flash Developers Course
Passed Programming Java, Passed Programming Java at ICE2011: Android Development Course
Computer Science Computer Science ICT, Computer Science Computer Science ICT at Technisch College Ede
Passed Flash Development, Passed Flash Development at Eduvision Course: Actionscript 2
English, Dutch, swift