About me
I am a successful entrepreneur and co-founder, with one startup exit in which I served as CTO. Within three years, our company was acquired by a publicly traded company in the San Francisco Bay Area. Instead of focusing on myself, I help, coach, mentor, and invest in others while always thinking outside the box. I can help advance your ideas because I love new technologies (like blockchain, Web3, and AI).
Johan de Groot
FROM AMSTERDAM
I have experience working as a product owner, strategist, enterprise architect, architect, accelerator coach for startups, co-founder of a startup, head of technology, cloud strategic security enablers, and CTO, among other roles that are necessary to build a successful team journey.
Me and my teams migrated the leading Dutch e-commerce business, Coolblue, to the cloud in less than six months.
Developed a Managed Services (Cloud) Platform that was later acquired..
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"Whatever you do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius and power and magic in it." – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Liveramp N.V"
2019-NowLiveramp acquired Faktor in Earn out
Transfering technical skill/knowledge creating an strategy securtiy plan for the multi-cloud strategy
Helping creating a vision in how to build fast complaint and secury product with a serverless approuch. Creating insigh in the platform and try to reducing the cost.
Platform is processes ~15 petabytes of data per day and generates ~2 petabyte of compressed output every day.
Cloud providers used;
- Amazon AWS
- Google GCP
- Mircosoft Azure
Faktor B.V
2017-2019CTO / Co-founder - Chief Technology Officer
LiveRamp Acquires Faktor, Started as a blockchain project, Needed to make the hard call to pivid to a compleet serverless product with multiple teams we have made variation of product; privacy consent manager for GDPR, CCPA used on all device's, roll out in EU and USA. the startup had a hyper growt. Processed ~50 million Concent daily.
Coolblue
2015-2017Senior Product Owner
Did so much we where in fast growth, had multiple disciplinary teams. Creating a vision and making that realitie. migrated the whole company from data center to the cloud.
- Migration
- monitoring greating insighs
- help developing other teams there products
- Speeding up the development process
- creating cost insights
Services
"Our industry does not respect tradition. It only respects innovation." - Satya Nadella
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Developement
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Coding
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Early stage investor
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Growth hacking
- new innovations / customers journeys
- Creating new product / new business models
- Marketing / Research
- Architecture role / Rapid development
Developement
The only way to keep up with the rapid advancement of technology is to be actively engaged in it. In my case, I'm investing but also digging in the dirt, writing code, and taking part in various hackathons. Utilize cutting-edge technology to help develop new business concepts in fast paced. If you like t-shirt sizing for people, I am person on the high top of a t-shirt worked with people in all layers of varied industry, with technical leg where i can go in-depth see my linkedin profile. Additionally, my dyslexia makes me creative and easy to collaberate with. helping teams with software architecture, tools/software, bringing ideas and concepts, and linking those across the groups with a commercial focus, always keep searching for new opportunities.
Images generate with stability.ai, qoute by Stewart Brand phrase used: "Once a new technology rolls over you, if you're not part of the steamroller, you're part of the road, by Banksy and Andy Warhol"
- Research / Developing
- Building User inerface / Scoping & Planning
- Coding / AR/VR, AI, Blockchain, Web3
- Participating in Hackathons / Coding on what ever needed
Coding
My coding adventure began when I was nine years old, in 1990, when my father purchased his first IBM model, the 5162. But I remember being fascinated by the machine's power. I started fiddling with the computer, even deleting my father's WordPerfect and losing all of his company's accounting numbers. And we asked an IBM engineer to come by and fix it while I stood there watching. And everything returned to normal. I realized that I needed to free up some memory so that I could play games. As a result, I began writing scripts and became interested in coding and computers.
I have moved in various directions in the IT field over the years. I was desperate for a job at IBM, and I got one, with one of my first responsibilities being to debug hardware system boards. In my spare time, I attended and hosted numerous LAN parties, experimented with networking while gaming with friends, and eventually ended up at ING Bank, where we built a large network using mainframes and other technology. What we now refer to as a cloud provider. I needed to build all of the hardware, networking, virtualization, and so on, and I wanted to automate everything, so I had to work with a variety of code languages and learn a lot of new things. Also, especially in the early days of the internet, the importance of having very good security around that.
TLDR: I want to try out anything new in technology! To learn, I take courses, attend meetups, and participate in hackathons.
Early stage investor
As a formal co-founder of a startup with a succesful exit, I understand that having a startup is like riding a rollercoaster and that you need investors who will not only give you capital. So I like the new technology thesis, and with my technical background, I understand it as well. But, as a founder, you need to pioneer and run your experiments to find that blue ocean.
Having a creative early-stage investor like me who can share his journey, knowledge, helping with experiment and share expertise to get other perspectives on your journey to find that blue ocean can be beneficial.
Growth hacking
Growth hacking is a process of rapid experimentation across marketing channels and product development to identify the most effective and efficient ways to grow a business. It is a way to find and scale successful marketing strategies based on data. The goal of growth hacking is to get a business to grow quickly and in a big way. Often, I do this by skipping over traditional marketing methods and using my creativity with new technology to find a new blue ocean strategy. Doing many experiments.
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Skills
“A learning curve is essential to growth.” -Tammy Bjelland
In my journey I have added manny skill and made them my self. From helping, mentoring startups till e-commerce in their journey to go to there next phase. I have programmed all kind of think
- Design, Building, Secure applications skills
- Coaching, investing, sharing skills
- Marketing, leadership skills
Languages Skills
Dutch
Enlish
Testomonials
"Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence wins championships." - Michael Jordan
Anthonie van Dijk
Manager Security & DPO at Coolblue
" As Manager Security and DPO, I've worked with Johan at Coolblue. During this period he succeeded in migrating our eCommerce platform to AWS within time and budget. Johan is not only a highly skilled colleague in the tech-area, he also has the ability to motivate people in a very likeable manner. Johan possesses a great security-mindset and has shown the ability and the skills to integrate security requirements into our high performance cloud based eCommerce platform."
Via Linkedin
Eduard Pieters
CIO at Meratus Group
" Working with Johan is an absolute delight. Even under the most demanding circumstances he keeps his head cool and manages to crack a joke or two to take the edge off within the team. He is inventive, energetic and smart, pulling out of the box solutions from his magic hat whenever the situation calls for them. His never failing enthusiasm has kept the team going and put a smile on my face on more occasions than I can recall, especially during those long nightly hours on a typical migration / integration job. "
Via Linkedin
Flynn Bundy
MVP Award and Devops Specialist at Amazon Web Services
" I've had the pleasure of working with Johan for the last year within a technical agile team. His Product Owner skillset and technical leadership have proven to be excellent in making the right decision for the right job. I look forward to working with Johan into the future! "
Via Linkedin
