Description de l’épisode
Today, let's meet Roy Derks, Manager Engineering at Vandebron, Amsterdam. During his Bachelor of Science Economics and Business Economics / Geography at Utrecht University, he founded MovieMarkt, a peer-to-peer marketplace that relied on the Circular Economy by allowing users to trade their used DVD's and Blu-Rays for free. He became then Technical Product Manager for Wundershift for 2 years. Right after he co-founded it's project SwitchBay, an user-to-user marketplace of used consumer electronics, he was hired as Senior Software Developer for the City of Amsterdam during almost 2 years. May 2020, he became Lead Mobile Developer at Checkgesprek.nl by Chatback Company for a few months. This lead us to August 2020, where he found his new home at Vandebron as Manager Engineering. Roy talked about his self-taught path to programming, the impostor syndrom, his bootcamp initiative for refugees to learn coding, his experience as book writer (co-author of Fullstack GraphQL and author of React Projects), of speaker, how he prepare his talks, the importance of personal branding and investing in ourselves, his many travels in 2019, but also the dynamism and thriving ecosystem in Amsterdam, his passion for Open Source, the impact of -19 on his work, and his goals in 2021. Discover his inspiring and insightful story! Discover also our fullstack JS training RebootJS on https://flint.sh/fr/academy !
