Tim Bormans

Senior Product Engineer

Summary

Senior product engineer based in Amsterdam with 19+ years of experience building consumer-facing products for web and mobile. I’ve helped teams ship products used by millions of people, from rebuilding SoundCloud’s web app from the ground up to architecting the front-end for STAGE+, Universal Music Group’s classical streaming platform, and helping Tele2 launch their flagship mobile app. I enjoy turning complex product ideas into polished, maintainable software, working closely with design, product and engineering.

Experience

Senior Product Engineer

Amsterdam / Remote

Embedded with startups, scale-ups and product companies as a senior engineer, leading architecture and implementation of customer-facing web and mobile products.

Selected projects

STAGE+ (Universal Music Group) · Web Streaming Platform

Led the front-end architecture of Universal Music’s premium classical streaming platform, collaborating closely with design and product from early concept through launch and continued development.

  • Next.js
  • React
  • TypeScript
  • GraphQL
  • Tailwind CSS
  • Web Performance
  • CI/CD
  • SEO
Darkroom · Website & Internal Admin Tools

Built customer-facing web experiences and internal tools for the Apple Design Award-winning Darkroom photo & video editor. Shipped a production LLM feature with the OpenAI API that generates natural-language descriptions from structured JSON configs.

  • Next.js
  • React
  • TypeScript
  • Node.js
  • Firebase
  • CloudKit
Tele2 · Native Mobile App

Architected and launched the flagship Tele2 mobile app on iOS and Android, used by millions of subscribers.

  • React Native
  • JavaScript
  • Redux
  • REST APIs
  • CI/CD
  • Jest
  • Storybook
  • Appium

Other projects

+4 more, including Zeal Records and Rockstart

  • TypeScript
  • JavaScript
  • React
  • Tailwind CSS
  • PHP
  • GraphQL
  • Node.js
  • Docker
  • PostgreSQL
  • REST APIs
  • Next.js
  • Shopify
  • Jest
  • React Native
  • Laravel
  • Vue.js
  • Astro

Senior Software Engineer

Amsterdam

Built civic technology and open-data platforms within the Future Internet Lab, including data visualisation tools, environmental sensing projects and European research platforms.

  • JavaScript
  • React
  • Node.js
  • Neo4j
  • D3

Software Engineer

Amsterdam

Built tools and products helping consumers make more sustainable purchasing decisions, including the Checkit React Native application.

  • React
  • React Native
  • JavaScript
  • Server-Side Rendering
  • Node.js
  • D3
  • CI/CD

Technical Co-Founder

Berlin

Co-founded an online restaurant reservation platform, designing and building the product, APIs and operational systems from the ground up.

  • JavaScript
  • Node.js
  • Express
  • Backbone.js
  • PostgreSQL
  • PHP

Front-end Engineer

Berlin

Built consumer-facing apps used by millions of musicians and listeners. Built SoundCloud’s first single-page app from prototype to production, created the company’s first front-end style guide, improved the embeddable player, and built integrations for SONOS and WordPress.

  • JavaScript
  • Backbone.js
  • Web Audio API
  • HTML/CSS
  • PHP
  • CI/CD

Front-end Developer

London

Built music discovery and community features for one of the world’s largest online music platforms, including festival finder, listening visualisations and the redesigned Last.fm experience.

  • PHP
  • JavaScript
  • HTML/CSS
  • PostgreSQL
  • ActionScript

Web Developer Intern

Brussels

Internship at a digital agency in Brussels, where I assisted on client web projects and documented the experience in an internship report.

Education

KHLIM – Media & Design Academy Bachelor Communicatie & Multimedia Design

Genk

Languages

Dutch

Native

English

Fluent / C2

German

Intermediate

French

Intermediate