Tom Van Gessel
Technical Product Manager Commercial Products at Umbraco
Gelderland, Netherlands
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Top SchoolTom Van Gessel is a technical product manager and seasoned software leader with 20+ years of hands-on experience in .NET web application development, CMS platforms (Umbraco, Episerver) and commercial product growth. He blends engineering chops (C#, Visual Studio, Azure) with proven leadership in Agile/DevOps teams, having led product development, integrations and analytics teams across international clients and enterprise accounts. As co-founder of uMarketingSuite he built a full-featured marketing suite for Umbraco—translating analytics, A/B testing and personalization into a commercial product—before joining Umbraco to drive its commercial offerings. Known for translating complex technical requirements into pragmatic product roadmaps, he also brings uncommon depth in both technical pre-sales and post-sales operational integration. Based in Gelderland, Netherlands, Tom combines startup product mentality with enterprise delivery experience, often selecting and shaping the ALM/DevOps tooling that teams actually adopt.
10 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS Hogere Informatica, Bachelor of Science - BS Hogere Informatica at HAN University of Applied SciencesMTS Techische Informatica, MTS Techische Informatica at Technisch College Ede
Dutch, English
Github Skills (8)
e-mail10
umbraco10
cms9
sdk8
api7
dotnet6
csharp6
testing1
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
PerplexDigital/Perplex-Kraken
Oct 2015 - Jul 2017
Contributions:17 commits, 16 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 10 months
PerplexDigital/PerplexMail-for-Umbraco
Jul 2015 - Dec 2020
An open source e-mail package for Umbraco CMS
Contributions:24 commits, 4 PRs, 26 pushes in 5 years 6 months
cmsmailumbracoumbraco-cmse-mail
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