Douwe Maan

Douwe Maan is a person

• Douwe Maan was born in the Netherlands 25 years ago, on January 1st
• Douwe Maan lives in Utrecht, the Netherlands with his wonderful fiancée
• Douwe Maan leads the Create backend team at GitLab
• Douwe Maan traveled for 6 months visiting colleagues around the world
• Douwe Maan holds a B.Sc in Computer Science from Utrecht University

Douwe Maan is a developer

• Douwe Maan builds web, mobile and desktop applications
• Douwe Maan caught the programming virus at the age of nine
• Douwe Maan is pretty seriously seeing Ruby & Ruby on Rails
• Douwe Maan likes to spice things up with JavaScript, HTML & CSS
• Douwe Maan enjoys the occasional dinner-and-a-movie with C# & .NET
• Douwe Maan spent two years together with Objective-C & Cocoa (Touch)
• Douwe Maan has had flings with Java (Android), C (Pebble), Haskell, Prolog & PHP

Douwe Maan is a professional

• Douwe Maan shapes the future of software development at GitLab (engineering manager; Feb 2015–present)
• Douwe Maan makes B&B owners’ lives easier at Stinngo (co-founder & CTO; Jan 2012–present)
• Douwe Maan built nifty utility iOS and Mac apps at StudioDalton (lead developer; Jan 2011–Aug 2012)
• Douwe Maan used to do boring old freelance PHP web development (2005–2010)

Douwe Maan is social

• Douwe Maan works completely in the open at gitlab.com/DouweM
• Douwe Maan shares code via github.com/DouweM (and appreciates the irony)
• Douwe Maan occasionally tweets as @DouweM
• Douwe Maan reads email sent to hi@douwe.me
• Douwe Maan has prepared a vCard specially for you

• Douwe Maan hosts this website on GitLab Pages
• Douwe Maan holds the copyright to this site, obviously