Marc Abbink

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Marc Abbink

A software entrepreneur that Loves a challenge

About

Hi there! I’m Marc, a software entrepreneur that loves to work on challenging / innovative projects. Pioneering is what I do, wether that’s in Mobile, API bridges, portals or BlockChain. As long as there is a problem to be solved.

Over the years I have co-founded 4 different tech startups in 4 different markets with a variety of people. I am usually responsible for the technical part and try to get (and keep) everything together.

Name: Marc Abbink
Email: info@marcabbink.nl
Phone: +31 (0)6 16804163
Date of birth: 8 December 1990
Address: Lichtenbergerweg 4, 7462PT Rijssen
Nationality: Netherlands

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My Skills

My skills

I started drawing when I was only 12. From that point on, I went more and more into design, UI, UX, programming, building websites, portals, apps, API’s, machine learning and now blockchain technology. This divers skill set makes me ideal for startups or innovatie projects.

Mobile development

Expert, 6 years

Blockchain development

Advanced, 2 years

Front-end development

Expert, 7 years

Design & UI

Advanced, 10 years

Knowledge

So trough-out the years I have done a lot of different things. Trying to master all aspects of a software company. Including SEO optimisation, different frameworks and the latest technologies. Below are a number of things that I specialize in.

Google Analythics & SEO
Mobile applications
Platforms
HTML5 & CSS3

React JS
Fuse Tools
Javascript
Game development

Machine learning
Grid & Layout
Teamwork
Strategy

Language Skills

I also learned some languages over the years. Naturally dutch because I live there, but german and cantonese are kind of a hobby;)

Dutch expert

95

English expert

95

German basic

55

Cantonese beginner

20

Experience

14 Years Experience

I started designing about 14 years ago. Since than it has been an awesome rollercoaster ride trough-out UI, UX, development, apps, SEO, portals, platforms, back-end development, front-end development, machine learning and now blockchain development. In these years I worked on 15+ portals, 20+ apps, 30+ tools and 150+ website’s. However, I also co-founded 4 software companies. And those are the projects I like to to the most.

ISO2HANDLE

Technical lead

2015 - 2017

ISO2HANDLE is an online platform that bridges the gap between certifications, companies, normscheme auditors and external experts. We provide a platform that simplifies normschemes like ISO9001:2015, VCA and VCU and make it more usefull for companies to actually make use of these normschemes. This way, a norm like ISO9001 can go from an expensive obstruction in your organisation to the base for all your key decision making, tread spotting and risk management.

Rootz

Technical lead

2013 - 2017

Rootz is a new interactive way to read children’s books together, either on the couch or long distance. The easy to use and child-friendly app has a great collection of quality children’s books and educational games. Every month, the collection is updated with new book titles and games. Rootz is free the first year and includes a serie of children’s books and games to start immediately.

Gini-Recruit

Development & Design

2012 - 2016

Gini-Recruit is an online platform that provides all the recruitment tools that a recruitment company needs.

Gryphon Interactive

Owner

2012 - 2017

Gryphon Interactive is my own software company in which I do all kinds of projects for all kinds of clients.

Portfolio

My portfolio consists of Apps, Platforms, Games and Libraries

Whenever there is a technical challenge, I am interested. With that mindset I helped out dozens of companies, individuals and clients building and improving websites (80+) apps (20+), platforms (20+) and tools (50+).

Obliverate SVG library
Statistics
Machine learning – candidate matching
Automatization, HR, Recruitment
ISO2HANDLE
Automatization, Certification, Communications, Statistics
SOLIDBRAND
Webshop
Family-Rootz
Communications, Education
Vivera – Save the Piggies
Communications, Food
Gini-Recruit
Automatization, Communications, HR, Recruitment, Statistics
Palisade Guardian 4
Games
The Schedule app
Automatization, Communications
Conquerer Sun-Age
Games
SEAL85
Games

Obliverate SVG library
Statistics
The Obliverate library is a library I built for a project. We wanted to have Real fancy charts, almost like in Oblivion or Iron Man 2. So after some research we started building this lib. It’s completely built in SVG which makes it really fast and really scalable.

If you’re interested in using this library, feel free to email me.

Team:

Time spend: 14 Months Product: library
Machine learning – candidate matching
Automatization, HR, Recruitment
In a project I was participating in, we had API access to 7 big applicant databases in Holland. Together, they covered 99% of the all the applicants and resume’s that were out there. On the other hand, we also had access to an API that provided 90% of all the vacancies that were published in Holland and we had the software in which these applicants got hired for a specific vacancy. So, we basically had all the ingredients we needed to try to automate the selection process with these datasets. And we tried to do this using machine learning.

As I was still busy for Gini and ISO2HANDLE, I thought it would be nice to experiment a bit with this idea.
So I decided to take it on as my side project and thats were it began.

So, the idea was roughly this:
- Find out as many things as you can about this person
- Extract labels from these datasets
- Expand the existing label sets with related labels (for example skills or competences a woodworker has)
- Expand the existing label sets with synonyms
- Do the same for the vacancy
- Try to make a match based on labels, label relevance, label weight, amount of occurrences etc. Use hard and soft criteria to find the best match
- Make a selection of best fitting vacancies and present those to the candidate
- Let the candidate decide wether he likes the vacancy, or not. And if not, ask why.
- This creates a continues feedback loop from witch the system can learn. So by the next iteration it will value certain links more and others less.
- This way, the system will learn what you prefer and improve over time
- Lastly we wanted to add a mutation component that would detect certain patterns, define a group within the population, and tried out certain new links that never existed before. To see wether these links could have an impact and if so, add them to the existing databases
I managed to build basically everything named above. But unfortunally due to time & money we never got to implement it fully. However, it is still waiting;) somewhere.
Team:

Time spend: 8 Months Product: library
ISO2HANDLE
Automatization, Certification, Communications, Statistics
ISO2HANDLE is an online platform that bridges the gap between certifications, companies, norm-scheme auditors and external experts. We provide a platform that simplifies norm-schemes like ISO9001:2015, VCA and VCU and make it more useful for companies to actually make use of these norm-schemes. This way, a norm like ISO9001 can go from an expensive obstruction in your organization to the base for all your key decision making, tread spotting and risk management.

In this project, I did all the design, build the front-end, build the website and am focussing now on the online marketing.

Team:

Link: Start project Time spend: 2+ Years Product: portal website android app iphone app tablet
SOLIDBRAND
Webshop
This is a webshop we made with a custom made sink creator. It allows the user to create his own sink from scratch and order it immediately.

Team:

Link: Start project Time spend: 4 Months Product: webshop
Family-Rootz
Communications, Education
Rootz is a new interactive way to read children’s books together, either on the couch or long distance. The easy to use and child-friendly app has a great collection of quality children’s books and educational games. Every month, the collection is updated with new book titles and games.

I founded this company in 2013 with 3 other people and after a lot of hard work, improvements and time. We managed to grow the app until 5K downloads a month and being listed in the App store best education apps.

Personally I build the app, the website, did the design and helped in the marketing.

Team:

Link: Start project Time spend: 3+ Years Product: ipad app website portal
Vivera – Save the Piggies
Communications, Food
Vivera is a company that create meat replacement food and wanted to create a new marketing strategy. So in order to do so, we build on their old style and gave it a new twist.

Team:

Time spend: 6 Months Product: website game
Gini-Recruit
Automatization, Communications, HR, Recruitment, Statistics
Gini-recruit is an online platform for recruitment agencies that provides all the tools you need to find the right man for the right job. I co-founded this company in 2012 with 2 colleagues and since than, it has been an amazing ride trough concepting, building, designing, improving, piloting, improving, publishing, process optimization, sales, support and growing the business.

In this project I build the entire front-end, the bridge between front- and back-end, iOS & android apps, the public website, plugins and all the design that had to be done.

Team:

Link: Start project Time spend: 4+ Years Product: portal website android app iphone app tablet
Palisade Guardian 4
Games
Palisade guardian 4 is a game I build with 3 other people. Its a first person shooter game in which you have to help your friends survive endless waves of enemies.

Team:

Time spend: 7 Months Product: game
The Schedule app
Automatization, Communications
The schedule app was my graduation project for my school. I never actually made an app before, but I knew that theoretically (with my coding background) I could do it. So I sold them the idea and got 3 months to make it happen.

O did I say it had to work on Android, iOS and Blackberry?..

So yeah, those were some crazy months. But in the end. I made it. And the app worked like a charm. Because of this, I also became 4th MBO student of holland in 2011.

After the success with the schedule app, I started selling licenses of newer versions of the schedule app to other schools and made a business out of it.

Team:

Time spend: 2 Years Product: android app iphone app blackberry app tablet
Conquerer Sun-Age
Games
It’s the year 2082 and mankind managed to reach places we could never reach before. We land on new planets and suns in solar systems that were unknown before. These planets provided us with new minerals so our evolution went faster than ever before. But after all this effort, an alien race called the “Icera” shows up and tries to capture all the energy of our suns. If they succeed, it means the end of our solar systems and therefore mankind. It is your task as commander of our army to stop this invasion and drive the Icera back to the cold place where they came from.

Team:

Time spend: 6 Months Product: game
SEAL85
Games
SEAL85 is a game I build while still in school. I had a lot of fun building it, and once I released it, it got played over 2 Million times within the first month! So I learned a lot of building this game, but what I still had to learn was how to make money out of games. Because those 2 Million plays, translated to $30.00 for me.
Yeah. So because of that, I started building another game.

Team:

Time spend: 8 Months Product: game