Aron van Ammers
CTO and Founding Partner at Outlier Ventures
Aron van Ammers
CTO and Founding Partner at Outlier Ventures
Amsterdam, North Holland
Overview
Work Experience
CTO and Founding Partner
2014 - Current
Outlier Ventures is Europe's 1st blockchain venture builder & early stage fund that pioneered the 'convergence thesis'; blockchain as foundational to key emergent trends like AI, IoT, Mixed Reality and Autonomous Robotics with huge significance to Health, eGovt, Industry 4.0, Mobility, Smart Cities & Finserv. Outlier invests in Pre-ICO equity and tokens. Portfolio: IOTA.org, Fetch.ai, Sovrin.org, SeedToken.io, Haja.io, OceanProtocol.com Besides leading the technical competency within Outlier, I work with the technical teams of Outlier's portfolio companies to let them benefit optimally from Outlier's experience, shared learning and academic and technical networks. Previously I've lead the development of various blockchain start-ups incubated by Outlier Ventures in-house, gaining invaluable experience in building on a multitude of distributed ledger technologies.
Triathlete
2000
To read about my adventures in the world of endurance sports, see what I write at http://multitof.com.
Chief Technology Officer
2015 - 2017
MoneyCircles is creating a fairer way for people to save, lend and borrow without the middleman. MoneyCircles gives you total control of who you share your money with and on what terms. We aren't a bank or lending platform, we just provide you with the technology to create and run your own with friends, colleagues and family members.
Founding Partner / CTO
2014 - 2016
Blockstars.io is the first Blockchain Agency dedicated to building, launching and operating decentralised businesses on the Blockchain.
Owner
2014 - 2016
Certinio helps businesses achieve growth through Bitcoin and related technologies. Bitcoin is a powerful concept. Being able to send money to any place in the world instantly, trusted, at almost no cost and without relying on a third party is revolutionary. But the blockchain technology that Bitcoin is based on goes further: it offers a wealth of additional possibilities like smart contracts and transferable virtual property. These concepts change the way we think about trust in information technology and business. Through consultancy, agile software development and training I help my clients make this paradigm shift and get the most out of these possibilities in their business.
Chief Technology Officer
2004 - 2014
Responsible for the technological side of the business, including leading the development of software products, management and recruitment of technical staff, knowledge management, project management and business development. I&DT offers SaaS solutions based on a generic application framework developed in-house. As the Lead Software Architect and CTO I was responsible for the technical side of designing, building and maintaining the framework, the products and the SaaS infrastructure. The development was carried out in a tightly knit technical team of 4-6 developers working with an agile development process. SaaS solutions based on this framework were offered for industries as diverse as NGOs, medical rehabilitation and organic food producers. The most prominent of these is Curasoft, a full-service solution for the Dutch Health Care sector. More information about the product can be found on http://www.curasoft.nl (Dutch).
Researcher
2003 - 2003
Conducted research on using platform independent models in the Model Driven Architecture (MDA). Subjects included the implications of MDA on requirements, verfication and validation, quality attributes and software processes. Founded a community on the subject during this period to establish a discussion platform.
Researcher
2002 - 2003
Student placement consisting of research on electronic business process integration in the telecommunications industry using the ebXML standard. BTexact is the R&D division of British Telecom.
Software Developer
2001 - 2002
Software development in Java, ColdFusion and other languages for web sites and applications in the travel industry.
Software Developer
1999 - 2001
Software development mainly in Java, based on a framework developed in-house. Actively contributed to the development of this framework.
Education
MSc
1998 - 2003