Ralph Reijs
Chief Technology Officer
Ralph comes from Haarlem, Netherlands and has more than 25 years’ experience at the cutting edge of IT with a background in digital infrastructure / IT security. He is a Chief Technology Officer as well as an Advisor at various startups and is a Bitcoin / blockchain specialist. Ralph solves complex challenges and provides solutions in Product Development, Software Architecture, Infrastructure and Security. Having been a computer enthusiast since the age of ten, Ralph vividly remembers the BBS days, BlueBoxing, 2600 and Phrack Magazine, and has since built an extensive expertise in Hardware and Software. Ralph loves both thinking Big Picture, as well as diving into the details to solve problems.
- Location
- Haarlem, Netherlands
- ralph.simon.reijs@gmail.com
- Phone
- +31 655 960 613
- Website
- https://ralphreijs.github.io
- GitHub
- ralphreijs
- ralphreijs
- YouTube
- @ralphreijs
Experience
– present
Chief Technology Officer / Co-Founder at Apostille USA
Apostille USA is a company born out of a desire to improve existing apostille solutions which are generally slow, cumbersome and occasionally even unreliable. We have developed a fully automated platform for legal document processing that can handle orders within 24-72h, instead of weeks to months.
Highlights
- Fully automated sales, order, fulfilment processes
- Physical and digital fulfilment, including automated shipping labels
- Revenue since the first month, profit since the 4th month
– present
Chief Technology Officer / Founder at Toxic Maxi
Bitcoin Maximalists have been called “toxic to the crypto-scene”, but since the various collapses of crypto companies, the hashtag #ThankAMaxi has been trending. Toxic Maxi is a company that aims to help individuals achieve self-custody, help companies integrate Bitcoin (-Lightning) solutions, and is developing a Bitcoin LN Point-of-Sales system.
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Chief Product Officer at Applied Universal Mathematics
The founder of AUM used his knowledge on Advanced Number Theory to develop a practical platform for detecting harmonic points and patterns in time-based datasets, ranging from financial/crypto- data, to public crime data, to historic sunspot datas, and anything inbetween. The software was able to identify datapoints to act upon or to avoid, generating Extremely interesting insights through an alternative look at data and facts
Highlights
- Practical software implementation of applied universal mathematics and advanced number theory
- Successful prototype dashboard with backtester functionality
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Chief Technology Officer / Co-Founder at Mpowa
Mpowa wants to revolutionize energy accessibility and distribution by deploying tokenized zero-point energy devices; allowing anyone with a token wallet to consume energy at decentralized generators.
Highlights
- Technical design of solution and pre-feasibility prototype
- Participated in the 'Yes!Delft Blockchain & AI Accelerator' of 2019
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Chief Technology Officer at Jinbi Token
Jinbi Token aims to offer a blockchain-based smart contract service that delivers a ‘sophisticated, safe and stable’ instrument for physical gold investments and storage.
Highlights
- Blockchain & Security Advisor and Core ICO Team member
- Led company through early-stages and ICO acting as de facto ICO Manager
- Helped raise $47.5 Million from investors
- Secured funds and infrastructure from 24/7 hacking & phishing attacks during ICO
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Head of Product at Stealth Startup
Created an Automated Ethereum platform for spreading, tumbling, mixing, trade volume and cross-blockchain conversion of ETH + ERC20.
Highlights
- Successfully used on Main Net with $150 Million worth of ERC20 tokens
- Led the Agile development and UI / UX Design, Architecture, running on our own Node.
- Campaigns are fully autonomous, with auto-healing for failed transactions
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Head of IT Infrastructure & Security at Pillar Project
After having built and joined 25+ startups, I played a crucial role in realising the funding and setting up of a conceptual opensource product that helps take back control over personal data through cryptography and Identity Management on the Ethereum blockchain.
Highlights
- Raised $27 Million from investors ($200M value at ATH) in a 60h Token Sale
- Secured funds and infrastructure from 24/7 hacking & phishing attacks during ICO
- Co-created the London HeadQuarters
- Communicated transparently with 15k investors
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Chief Technology Officer at AppCodex
Delivered innovative mobile apps & games as solutions to modern challenges, and to replace archaic legacy approaches and connect the offline to the online, by making use of cutting edge technology with intuitive, user-friendly UIs for both Consumers and Enterprise.
Highlights
- Transformed an old teaching method for reading, from old wooden board to intuitive iOS app which achieved 10k downloads in the first month and was acquired by Noordhoff Uitgevers Groep (Netherlands largest educational publisher) in 2008
- Released the first iOS App ever to offer Bitcoin payments / exchange functionality in 2010. It intuitively provided market prices, mining and network statistics/charts, a profit calculator and offered exchange functionality (orders + trades). Achieved 50k downloads in first 2 months.
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Senior Solution Architect at Freelance
Provided cost-reducing solutions in IT Service Management to clients in Finance-, Pharmaceutical-, Petrochemical- and Information Technology sectors as a freelance contractor.
Highlights
- 18+ years of transforming 40+ clients requirements into functional- / technical designs and implementing solutions through enterprise SDLC.
- Clients included: IBM, Shell, Bayer, Rabobank, Deutsche Bank, Frankfurt Stock Exchange, WorldCom, Thales and Roche.
- Optimised business processes / procedures and drastically reduced workload and cost of Service Delivery using ITIL best practices.
- Built data-driven strategies and products that boosted Customer Satisfaction.
- Designed & implemented APIs between enterprise IT Systems on Unix/AIX to allow real-time incident resolution between vendors and clients.
Education
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MAVO+HAVO at Herbert Vissers College in Nieuw Vennep, Netherlands
Languages
- 🇺🇸 English
- Fluency: 5/5
- 🇳🇱 Dutch
- Fluency: 5/5
- 🇩🇪 German
- Fluency: 4/5
- 🇮🇹 Italian
- Fluency: 2/5
- 🇪🇸 Spanish
- Fluency: 2/5
- 🇧🇷 Portuguese
- Fluency: 2/5
- 🇫🇷 French
- Fluency: 2/5
Skills & Knowledge
- Product Development
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- Software Architecture
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- Privacy & Security
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- Bitcoin
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