I'm Stijn Bakker

I am a proud digital product builder

I code, design, strategise, brand and manage

Building new businesses around new digital products

The more technically complex the better

I do so now full-time as lead CoreConnect

Making it much simpler for SMBs to setup a technical complex architecture

Thus freeing themselves from being locked-in to shitty tools

In my spare time I like to read and think

Occassionally culminating into writings

And I like to go hunting for nice photographs

My story (hover over text)

I used to be a musician, stage technician and producer

(2011 - 2016) - independent contractor

I then became hardware engineer and industrial designer (BSc)

I added a masters specialising in strategy and organisational design (MSc)

(2016 - 2019) - Pezy Group, Delft University of Technology

I became a boardroom advisor the KLM | BCG partnership

(2017 - 2020) - KLM, BCG

I taught myself full-stack development

First MERN stack, later SvelteKit with other DBs

I switched to full-time front-end engineering during corona crisis for KLM

(2017 - 2020) - Designed and build "Corona Portal"

I started for myself as independent product owner and strategic advisor

I worked with various corporations, startups and non-profits

(2020 - 2023) - Team.Blue, FastApp, Vief, Gadero, EuroParcs, KickstartAI, NS, KLM, RB2, Fabrique

I now work as full-time lead on CoreConnect at RB2

(2023 - present) - A developer toolkit and platform for developing composable architectures, as a venture by rb2

And am gearing up my venture studio Concepting Company