Wouter Vegter

Since November 2014 I am full time working on my dream project. It is a true moonshot project: a small chance on having significant impact on the evolution of IT. I am mostly known for my extreme drive for abstract framework creation and refactoring, contributing to the abstracter good. I seldom encounter programmers that code slower than I do. Writing methods bigger than 500 lines is something I take pride in. Having more than 200 lines in any of your methods is considered an atrocity by the majority of programmers.

Through my career in software so far, I have seen my fair share of programming frameworks like Rails, Android, Android data sync mechanisms, Android ORMs, Asp.net MVC, Asp.net Dynamic Data (and php & VB6 of course:) ). This has brought me a thorough understanding of preferred and non-preferred data flows in the development of mobile and web software.

I had my first company when I was 17, which I sold 6 months later. I wanted to finish my study Business Information Technology at the University of Twente.

My MSc graduation thesis was formulating an outside in, proposition oriented strategy for a top 3 player in the Dutch car insurance market. My thesis explained & encouraged them to commit their strategy even more to the exploration of information technology and social networks in their service propositions. My master thesis has learned me much about trends shaping todays society; how IT is supposed to be only at the first half of its impact, social networks are strengthened, and traditionally powerful organizations have to adapt themselves increasingly to the self organizing power of social networks. Governments are stepping back from their previously assumed role of innovator, which now is increasingly being fulfilled by commercial organizations and self organizing social networks supported by IT.

2008 – Moop.me

I am co-owner of the app agency Moop.me (founded 2008), with which I was involved since my graduation in 2010, sharing responsibility for our employees, products, technical quality and customers.

IT is mostly an enabler, sometimes it creates entirely new propositions. We enabled process and proposition innovation in the markets of facility management, publishing, and public transit. Our footprints in these markets will likely sustain in the coming years as they currently do. We made a multitude of apps in other markets.

We won awards at contests organized by Google, Accent