Sjors Grijpink
CTO at dé VakantieDiscounter
Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands
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Top SchoolSjors Grijpink is a seasoned technology executive and CTO with 16 years of experience leading engineering and IT strategy in the leisure, travel and tourism sector, currently steering technology at dé VakantieDiscounter. With a PhD in High Energy Physics from the University of Amsterdam, he brings a research-grade analytical mindset to product and platform decisions, pairing deep technical fluency with hands-on delivery. His background spans senior consultancy and management roles at Xebia and Otravo, where he drove continuous integration, Scrum adoption and business process improvement across complex travel systems. An active developer contributor on repositories like scala-labs, he is comfortable across the full stack—making both backend model changes and front-end UI improvements—and values pragmatic, test-driven solutions. Based in Amsterdam, he combines academic rigor with commercial leadership to translate complex requirements into scalable, operational systems.
16 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
PhD High Energy Physics, PhD High Energy Physics at University of Amsterdam
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Github Skills (8)
html10
css10
backend10
back-end-development10
twitter-api10
scala10
front-end-development9
unit-testing9
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
scala-labs/scala-labs
Aug 2009 - Aug 2009
A collection of hands-on programming exercises aimed at teaching you to program in Scala
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:23 commits in 6 days
Contributions summary:Sjors contributed to both the frontend and backend aspects of the project. Their commits included modifications to Scala code, specifically import statements and model definitions, suggesting backend work. They also added a CSS stylesheet and made changes to HTML templates, indicating frontend development and UI improvements. Furthermore, the user added and modified Scala code and unit tests to implement a Retweet filter.
hands-onfunctional-programmingteachinghandsscala
sgrijpink/final-assignment-getting-and-cleaning-data
Feb 2016 - Feb 2016
Contributions:6 pushes, 1 branch in 3 days
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