Summary
Téo Bais is a Software Development Manager with 11 years of experience leading distributed engineering teams and coordinating SDLC activities across multi-product value streams. Based in Utrecht, he currently oversees 30+ FTEs across four teams in Wolters Kluwer’s BNX stream, balancing delivery, vendor relationships, budgeting, and technical roadmaps using SAFe, Scrum, and Kanban. A founder of the Utrecht Java User Group (3,300 members) and co-author of The Definitive Guide to Jakarta EE Security, he blends deep Java/Jakarta EE expertise with active community building and public speaking. He has hands-on startup experience as a CTO building a 3D surgical-printing MVP and a background as a Scrum Master and lecturer that sharpen his coaching and cross-functional collaboration skills. Téo’s profile shows a rare mix of technical authorship, program-level delivery ownership, and grassroots developer evangelism—he often operates equally well in boardroom planning and meetup-stage evangelism.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Executive MBA, Business Administration and Management, General, Executive MBA, Business Administration and Management, General at TIAS School for Business and Society
BSc / MSc, Informatics & Telecommunications Engineering, BSc / MSc, Informatics & Telecommunications Engineering at University of Western Macedonia
Digital Platforms & Digital Ecosystem Business Models, MBA Exchange Program, Digital Platforms & Digital Ecosystem Business Models, MBA Exchange Program at POLIMI Graduate School of Management
English, Dutch, German, Greek