Primary Job Title Chief Engineer Primary Organization Reach Digital Health
Location Netherlands, Missouri, United States Regions Midwestern US Gender Male
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Simon de Haan is the Chief Engineer at Praekelt.org and has the rare talent to demystify software systems and platforms for nonengineers. He was the team lead on Praekelt.org’s Vumi platform, an open source messaging platform that allows for interactive conversations over SMS, USSD, Gtalk and other basic technologies at low cost and at
population scale in the majority world. Vumi is the technology that powers various groundbreaking initiatives such as Wikipedia Text, PeaceTXT, MomConnect, MAMA and the Libyan election registrations.
Simon has hosted various talks, webinars and hackathons about his passion for development and for building systems that can scale and can help our partners reach their audiences with life-saving information.
Growing up in the Middle East ruined him for the ordinary as those years left an unmistakable impression and set him on a direct course to be involved in community development, entrepreneurship and technology.
Prior to joining Praekelt, Simon held the positions of CTO at Soocial.com, Senior Developer at Eight.nl and was the Owner at Fission.nl.
