Dirk Groten

I am passionate about new technology and how to turn it into simple, useful services for the rest of us. My focus is on mobile technology. For the past 5 years, I’ve been CTO at Layar, shaping the technology of the company from an app showing a couple of layers of augmented reality to the platform it is now: an app downloaded more than 35 million times and a back-end serving more than 80000 developers and publishers of content. I manage a team of 15 people developing server software in Django/python hosted on AWS, and client software for iOS, Android and the web....