Welcome at Roger Heykoop's website.

Bio

• Born august 6^th 1972
• lives in a small town near Haarlem, the Netherlands
• has studied Computer Science at the University of Amsterdam (UvA)
• has a HBO-A level teaching degree
• INTJ personality type
• Develops software in:
  • Ruby/Ruby on Rails
  • Perl
  • C/C++
  • Javascript
  • Objective-C
• Hobbies:
  • Photography
  • Computer GFX, SFX & CGI
  • Movies
  • Travel
  • Shooting sports
• Lives with partner Bianca and son Deylian

Companies, investments, projects

• VuurWerk Internet B.V. (1996):
  • Largest webhosting provider of the Benelux area in 1999 (absolute numbers)
  • Largest percentual marketshare of any single webhostingprovider in the Netherlands ever (>12%)
  • socially engaged company with a high percentage of reintegrated employees
  • Sold to Versatel in 1999
• InterLAB B.V. (2000):
  • First wholesale international domainname registration specialist 'Prenames' in the Netherlands, 2002
  • Webhosting provider 'ServerNation'
  • Sold to Digiter in 2009
• Canfast (2007)
  • Online and shop based canvas printing service
  • Sold in 2008
  • Restarted in 2010
• Prorama (2010):
  • Panoramic photography services for realestate, tourism, events etc.
  • Height- and aerial photography and videography using RC drones
  • Timelapse and high speed videography
• 360.to (2010, in development):
  • Panoramic photo community
  • Cloud based hosting of large panoramic photos
  • Embedding of panoramic photos on private sites, Google Earth, Facebook, Twitter, hyves etc.
• DN.nl (2010):
  • Consultancy services
  • Development in Ruby on Rails, PHP, C/C++, Javascript etc.
  • Software projects:
    
    • project management software for windfarms
    • Invoice and management system + CRM for a home-order-meal retailer
• Babywedstrijd.nl (2010):
  • Testbed to find the most honest photo ranking system
  • Started primarily as a reaction to a failed babyphoto contest by a large diaper retailer
• Dating site/Social network (2011, in development)

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