Therry van Neerven

Freelance Software Engineer & Technical Leader

I build software end-to-end — from initial idea to production grade deployment. With a background spanning CTO, Head of Product, and hands-on engineering, I bring both technical depth and organizational experience to every project.

Currently available for freelance assignments

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Skills

Python & Django
API Development
Frontend (Vue / React)
PostgreSQL
DevOps & CI/CD
Docker & Kubernetes
Infrastructure as Code
Cloud Infrastructure
Monitoring & Observability
CTO & Product Leadership
Product Management
Agentic Engineering

Work Experience

NXP Semiconductors Software Engineer · 2025–2026

Designed and built an access management tool from scratch; live within 3 months and scaling organisation-wide one year later.

Logichainge Interim CTO · 2023

Helped move the product from prototype to production and organised the engineering and company processes.

JouwWeb Cloud Migration Consultant · 2019–2020

Led migration from bare metal to the cloud, laying the foundation for scaling to 350,000+ customers.

Sendcloud CTO → Head of Product · 2012–2018

Grew the engineering team to 12 people, migrated the platform from PHP to Python, supported ~10,000 online merchants.

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Recommendations

Tim Drijvers
Strategic Technology Leader | Executive Advisor & Technical Due Diligence

I had a great time working with Therry! During our product sessions he always amazed me with the level of detail and in-depth knowledge he had about topics we were working on. It was also very joyful to work with Therry on technical projects, he is always up-to-date about the latest technologies and had no difficulty in understanding and explaining complex systems.
Therry aims for exceptional high quality, which allowed SendCloud to grow at a very rapid pace. At a later stage his qualities helped us further shape our product and explore new international markets.

Marinos Tsagkarakis
Principal Product Owner at Forescout Technologies Inc.

I first met Therry when he invited me for an interview and eventually, gave me the opportunity to work for the Product Team of SendCloud. Together, we started shaping the Product Roadmap of SendCloud, contributing at the same time to the agile transformation of the organization, adopting Scrum.
Therry is one of the smartest guys I have ever met, and one of my best colleagues in my whole carrier so far. He is a down-to-earth person, a great team-player, hard-worker, and detail-oriented.
Apart from a great Software Craftsman with sound knowledge of design and engineering, Therry has the correct business mindset to create a great product or service. That’s exactly what he did in SendCloud… He built from scratch one of the most successful and disruptive SaaS products in the market.
I really enjoyed working with Therry! His unique sense of humor, his magic power to stay calm and focused on the goal, and our long discussions (product and non-product) made him one of my best business partners.
Can’t wait to work with him again!

Roel van Duijnhoven
JouwWeb

Therry is a nice guy to work with. Using his experience as a developer and lead, Therry helped us determine the best strategy to scale our infrastructure.
During the process he had impact on all major decisions ranging from the decision to move the cloud, choosing the cloud platform, and deciding on which technology to use for container clustering.