Bio

2021 - Top 50 Talents in Business (Dutch Financial Times) https://fd.nl/fd-persoonlijk/1371661/dit-zijn-ze-de-50-talenten-van-2021-omb3caJCud4h - Developer Experience & Relations (https://stepzen.com) - Tech Entrepreneur & Investor (https://hackteam.io) - International speaker (https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=roy+derks) - Author (https://www.amazon.com/Roy-Derks/e/B0834CJH9L) PAST: - Tech enthusiast since I first encountered the Internet in the late 90s - Founded my first startup ''MovieMarkt'', which had over 20,000 users (including 2,000 paid users), when I was 16 years old - Founded and later sold one of the largest Dutch communities about tv shows (alletvseries.nl) - Launched the social tvguide application ''Pointers TV-Gids'' as Technical Product Manager @ Wundershift - Making world-class tech education available to everybody @ Restart Network - (Co-)founded SwitchBay, the marketplace to buy and sell (used) electronics - Open-source Projects @ City of Amsterdam - Engineering Leadership / Management position for 6 scrum teams (25-30FTE) @ Vandebron