Member Directory

Digital maker, drunk in love with pixels, digital campaigns and adporn. Founder of the music app remixmonsta.

Luca Berton leads Open Empower as CEO, an Amsterdam-based firm that supplies AI infrastructure to regulated financial companies in Europe. Luca previously held engineering leadership roles at Red Hat and Dell Technologies and has worked as an Ansible automation engineer. His current work centers on production AI systems that must satisfy the EU AI Act, DORA, GDPR and NIS2.

Mitchell Tieleman is the founder of Odin Labs AI, an Amsterdam company that builds AI products and helps businesses and engineering teams put them to work. His LinkedIn profile also lists a senior developer role at Rabobank, focused on agentic AI systems, GenAI workflows and AI Ops. The company connects model access, agent workflows and organizational knowledge, with EU-only routing for chat compl

Ricardo Tomasi works as a Staff Software Engineer at tomasi.studio, a software studio in Amsterdam that makes focused tools for builders. Public GitHub work includes node-polyglot, a translation library for Node.js, and filr, a tool that keeps files in a Flickr account. Ricardo is currently focused on milktea, a native terminal UI framework, and inferor, which runs optimized LLM inference on Apple

I’m VolHan, an AI Web Engineer & Creative Founder with 15+ years of experience in web development. I create immersive websites and interactive experiences that bring together design, motion, music, and web engineering. Alongside this, I create and release original AI-assisted music, exploring new ways to connect sound, visuals, and interaction. I’m building MAIC UP, an AI sales assistant for WooCo

Maurice Frank is the Founding CTO of Soilytix, a company in Hamburg that builds soil intelligence models from soil DNA and field data for landowners and grower co-ops. His background includes AI work at the University of Amsterdam and computer science at Heidelberg, and his public GitHub work includes a PyTorch reimplementation of NSynth. Maurice builds tools for AI agents, such as agent-plugin-te

Alexandre Hawat works independently as an AI-native engineer in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. He builds software around agentic AI and has published projects on GitHub, including mergeCraft, an AI code review engine with policy-driven merge gates, and bs-score, a tool that scores defects found by language models. His recent work also includes an OpenTelemetry telemetry plugin for OpenCode that track

Rowan Brad Quni-Gudzinas runs QNFO, an independent research imprint in Amsterdam that publishes open, auditable work on what computation costs and delivers. Before that, Rowan spent fifteen years on national data and policy programs at the U.S. Federal Highway Administration and AARP, including the Livability Index. Current focus is an AI-assisted research pipeline in which papers move through mac

Cristian Prodius is the CTO of Ken, a company that runs done-for-you email and LinkedIn outreach for B2B teams, handling lists, copy, deliverability and sending on a platform it built. He is based in Amsterdam and is described by Ken's founder as a founding engineer there. He previously founded Prodius Enterprise in 2024. Cristian builds with tools such as Claude, Qwen, Mistral and Ollama.

Pauline Vos is a software engineer in Amsterdam who is building Remember This, an app for saving notes, photos and voice notes and finding them later by describing what you remember. She is a senior software engineer at MongoDB, where she maintains open-source software for the PHP ecosystem. She has spoken at several Symfony conferences, including SymfonyCon Amsterdam 2025. Remember This is in clo

I build engineering teams that ship reliable products at scale and I keep those teams healthy while doing it.At Booking.com I lead multi-disciplinary teams spanning backend, frontend, ML, and design. Over 9 years I've owned every stage of the people side: headcount planning, hiring loops, onboarding, 1:1s, performance calibration, promotion cases, and the difficult conversations when fit or perfor

Amin Marashi is the founder of cerebro, a command-line tool that runs a plan, execute and review loop by orchestrating Claude and Codex sub-agents. He is also a senior software engineer at New10 (ABN AMRO) in Amsterdam, where he works on risk-management systems across backend, cloud, and AI. Amin also publishes open-source projects, including x-digest, which builds a daily reading list from an X t

Agata Żywot is an AI engineer at TKH AI in Amsterdam, the AI center of excellence of TKH Group, which develops algorithms for the group's real-world R&D challenges. Agata is also finishing an MSc in Artificial Intelligence at the University of Amsterdam. Current work centers on a thesis about efficient multi-agent AI built from small, collaborative language models, including a framework for testin

From Code to Clouds to Cognition.I'm an all-round technologist with 20+ years spent solving hard, relevant problems that matter — from research chemist to cloud architect to AI engineer — always driven by curiosity, creativity, and the belief that technology should empower people.Today my work lives at the intersection of Cloud Native, AI, and Platform Engineering. I help organizations design scal

Ulad Kouski is an independent AI engineer based in Amsterdam, working on LLM evaluation and AI infrastructure. He has spent ten years in software engineering, moving from frontend leadership into production AI. Ulad focuses on agentic systems, deterministic quality gates and local-first tools. His open-source projects include Samuraizer, a private meeting-notes tool that runs on the user's own mac

Ahmed Mohamed is the Founder and CTO of ReachableAI in Amsterdam, a small team that builds practical AI products for people who need clear, fast and trustworthy human-AI collaboration. He holds a PhD in Computer Science and has been a Principal Applied AI Researcher at Prosus Group since 2024. Ahmed is now building HeyProduct, a voice-native platform for directing AI work through conversation.

Hugo Braam is the co-founder and CEO of Virtuagym, an Amsterdam-based company that makes all-in-one coaching, management and engagement software for gyms, fitness businesses and the corporate health market. Before starting Virtuagym in 2008, Hugo worked as an intellectual property lawyer. He launched the company as a consumer fitness app and later moved it to business-to-business (B2B) software fo

Mike Strives is the founder and CEO of CopyPaste Lab, a product studio that builds and scales SaaS products using reusable code templates, AI tools and repeatable marketing playbooks. Mike founded Upvoty, a user feedback tool with feature voting, created the Zero to SaaS course and community, and has built software products as a solo founder since 2010. He now coaches early-stage SaaS founders on

Rutger Peters is co-founder of Threading Needles and founder and CEO of Gynzy, an online education company he started in 2009 that makes classroom software for schools. Rutger co-founded GameGate.com in 1998 and the internet games company Zylom in 2001. He later served as co-CEO of GameHouse and joined the supervisory board of Amsterdam fitness software company Virtuagym. He builds with AI tools s

Demian Voorhagen is the CEO and co-founder of Mirava, an Amsterdam-based tool that helps mobile app teams set and automate per-country pricing across iOS, Android and the web. Demian has worked as a founder and growth strategist with B2C subscription apps, has two exits behind him, and writes about regional app store pricing for RevenueCat. He also invests as an angel in mobile apps, SaaS and AI t

Laurentiu JIGA is the Founder and CEO of Generatik, a platform that lets brands check mall availability and book indoor advertising campaigns in real time, starting with shopping centers in Romania. Before Generatik, Laurentiu founded Brand Management and spent about two decades building it into a national indoor advertising company in Romania, where he served as CEE Managing Director. With Genera

Cristian Frunze is the founder of Ken, which runs done-for-you email and LinkedIn outreach for B2B companies and handles lists, copy, deliverability and sending on its own platform. Before Ken, Cristian built Smart Course, an eLearning platform in Romania that reached 50,000 students by the time he was 16. He started Ken by writing Python software to automate outbound, and ran it as an agency befo