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Rijk van Zanten
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Rijk van Zanten

CTO, Co-Founder

Rijk is a developer and designer born and raised in the Netherlands. He first came to America to work on Directus where he is CTO to this day. When not coding you can find him playing bass in the Lower East Side or hanging out with his cats in Brooklyn. Coder-designer by nature, musician at heart; prefers code to be indented in threes. 

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