Marc van Neerven

Independent Software Business Consultant

Neerventure.com

Helping startups & scale-ups with their technical strategy, in terms of (Native) Cloud Solutions Architecture, Digital Transformation, Agile, Team Growth, Governance, Change Management, etc.

Founder & CTO

Mentoring (aspiring) CTOs on leadership, cultural, strategic, psychological, and systemic aspects of the CTO role.

CTO Mentor

World of WOW

Chief Technology Officer (Fractional)

Advising WOW on B2C SaaS development & scaling.

Strategic Board Advisor

Qogni Technologies

Development (PWA, AI, Cloud) and SaaS Strategy

CTO and Partner

Helping Qogni with the next steps of their Health Platform and Movement

Knights Absorb - Learning

Helping with software strategy and product development

Interim CTO (Fractional)

Pure Web Foundation

Doing extraordinary stuff while keeping close to official web standards....

Founder, Lead Architect & CTO

ISV Canvas

Presenting an assessment tool for Software Tech (ISVs, Startups, Scaleups) to validate their technical maturity in 7 key areas and providing guidance for growth.

Microsoft

For Microsoft, I assess startups' technology status using a Tech Canvas I developed, loosely based on Lean Canvas and Business Model Canvas.

Independent Startup/Scaleup advisor

Mentoring scale-up companies in the Microsoft for Startups' Amsterdam Scale Up program.

Scale Up Mentor

MT/Sprout

Writing blogs about the life of a CTO at Startups and Scaleups.

Startup Expert

Get-e

Providing strategic advice on Software Architecture, Cloud Fit, Processes and Team Structure.

Senior Advisor to the CTO

Adapta

Helping to realize Adapta's ambitious plans with their healthcare super app

Interim Chief Technology Officer

Fractional CTO 💡 Top Startups Voice⚡ Helping startups make better SaaS

I'm an experienced SaaS CTO, working on a 'Fractional' basis, meaning that companies can hire me part-time as their Interim CTO, or as an advisor to the board. 

I work for startups, scaleups, ISVs and other software companies, or consultancies turning into SaaS companies.

My work is transformational: when I leave, a company should be better off in terms of their (tech) strategy and/or operational excellence.

Before becoming a CTO, I have been a solutions and cloud architect. I still code, as an open source contributor, and sometimes for 'my' startups, doing Proof-of-Concepts.

I'm a Web Standards evangelist, and a Social Impact Lover. 

I've seen it all, with more than 30 years of experience in Software Development, and I'm now focusing on Native Cloud as a natural fit for startups and scaleups.

I write a lot about the life of a CTO, and about the Modern Web.

Writing blogs about the life of a CTO at Startups and Scaleups. 

Hunty

At Hunty I have led the construction and improvement of all lines of product:
* Development of our first no-code platform and migration of it to a propietary code-based web app.
* Recommendation algorithms based on natural language processing and embedding techniques for our job seekers. 
* construction of our data analytics ecosystem with data warehouse and custom processing pipelines.

More recently (~2023): 
* Development of new product lines based on LLM technologies for large scale automations in HR market. 
* Development of new B2B SaaS for large enterprises over our AI-core of automated recruitment.

Co-Founder & CTO

Almagan

Co-Founder & Tech Lead

Platzi

As an individual contributor (outstanding milestones): 

* Instant Answers: I participated in the construction of the first AI-based feature for this  EDTech platform (https://platzi.com/blog/adios-a-la-espera-de-solucion-de-tus-preguntas-conoce-instant-answers/). It was a solution to provide instant answers to certain questions of students in the platform based on similar previous questions that were already answered by someone else, this was a huge milestone due to the problem of massive unanswered questions existing in the platform. 

*Sentiment score for courses: I developed a sentiment score for each course of the platform combining sentence embeddings and heuristic. This score helped us determine wether the reactions of students to each specific education contents were good or bad, in order to execute effective strategies of improvement.

Over my last year here I acted as Architect of the engineering team to help decide the strategy of the product and to elaborate the technical definitions with architects of other software specialties as backend, Devops and Frontend.

* My last strategical consideration here was to introduce significant improvements in the search engine by considering one of the first semantic based engine solutions for efficient , flexible and fast search.

Data Scientist

Scient

Co Founder of Scient: envisioned as a robotics automation, data analytics and machine learning based consultancy firm.

At Scient we helped different customers by providing automation solutions including machine learning and RPA custom solutions for specific optimization problems and also with software developments around the core automation components to enable their adoption by end users.

Datafreaks

Leading and management of data analytics projects at Datafreaks as a part-time consultant

Data manager

Politécnico Grancolombiano

lecturer in:
* Newtonian Mechanics for engineering
* Electromagnetic Physics
* Fluids and Thermodynamics
* Differential, Integral and Vector Calculus
* Numerical methods with python

Adjunct professor

Grupodot

Skills and topics of research: 
* Knowledge of ML products and services within Google Cloud Platform 
* Probabilistic Graphical Modeling - Bayesian Networks and causal Inference.
* NLP models for social networks data
* Advanced knowledge in web scraping and interactive data visualization

Products developed: 

* Semantic Suite: a suite of Natural Language Processing solutions that enable brands into a better understanding of their audience, helping the execution of better and smart advertising strategies on the philosophy of data-driven advertising (https://www.grupodot.com/blog/de-escucha-en-redes-a-conversaciones-relevantes).

Universidad sergio arboleda

lecturer in:
* Vector Calculus
* Differential and Integral Calculus
* Continuous  dynamical systems
* Mechanics and Electromagnetic physics
* Physics of Fluids
* Programming and Computational tools with MATLAB and Python

NASA Ames Research Center

Under the umbrella of the Living with a Star program and the UCAR sponsorship, I developed research based on numerical simulations of magneto-convection to study the mechanism of formation of sunspots, which is crucial to understand the Sun-Earth interaction. 
See details at: https://vsp.ucar.edu/heliophysics/ames/participants

Summer Research Intern

Universidad de los Andes

Graduated assistant of the Mechanical Engineering school.

Graduated assistant 

Multidisciplinary Scientist Turned Data-Driven CTO: Bridging Research, Education, and Industry for Societal Impact

I am a versatile scientist turned data-driven CTO, passionate about research, education, and innovation. Initially specializing in turbulent fluid dynamics across various domains—such as plasma astrophysics, climatology, and aerodynamics—I made a strategic pivot to embrace the fast-paced startup ecosystem. This journey has shaped me into a competitive data scientist and engineering manager.

In recent years, I've engineered and deployed cutting-edge Natural Language Processing solutions for diverse industry clients. As the current CTO of Hunty.com, a Colombian employability startup, I lead initiatives to connect job seekers with their dream careers.

I thrive on teamwork and I am committed to leveraging technology for meaningful societal change. Let's collaborate to build something extraordinary!

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