Creative community workshop: restoration of motorcycles, tinkering/welding/creating, events
Maarten Vleugels
Engineering Leader and Product-minded Developer in Rome, Italy
About
Hands-on engineering leader with and product-minded developer with a background in interaction design. I build and ship fast, maintainable web products across e-commerce, content, and media.
Experience
2024 — Current
CTO at Wax Poetics
Building a music collectible platform focused on preserving and growing music culture. Led development of auction software and commerce flows.
2022 — 2025
Lead Engineer at Swell
Owned and improved developer documentation and built/maintained search integration. Contributed to a block-based visual store builder and the Swell Apps ecosystem.
2017 — 2022
Lead Developer at Wonderland
Delivered interactive, design-forward web experiences for a range of clients and campaigns. Partnered closely with design to keep craft and performance high.
2015 — 2016
Interaction Design & Development at Artificial Rome
Built interaction-heavy web experiences and product sites for clients including Siemens, Sennheiser, and TWC.
Projects
We collect goods, distribute them ourselves, work with local partners in Ukraine, and engage with the people we help to understand their needs.
We train refugees for tech careers with an intensive coding program, career coaching and specialization tracks in front-end, back-end, cloud
Education
2012 — 2016
ICT & Media Design in ICT & Media Design at Fontys Eindhoven
Skills
LeadershipProduct EngineeringReactSvelteJavaScriptTypeScriptShopify DevelopmentTechnical Writing