Nick Postma

I am Nick Postma from Wierden, the Netherlands. At CCV Shop in Hengelo I lead the development team, a team of twenty people with backend developers, frontend developers and UI/UX designers. In addition, I joined the management team at the beginning of 2026, where I contribute to product development, innovation and the course of the organisation, and I have been Project Manager Business Development since 2025. I started there in 2015 as a software engineer and then built up the quality assurance department as Head of QA. Alongside my job at CCV Shop I have been working since 2019 under the name DoingCode as an independent developer.

My work moves between two worlds that reinforce each other. On one side the bigger picture: planning projects, getting teams to work together and bringing new propositions to market on time. On the other side the technology itself, which is still where I like to be most. Writing code, designing systems and figuring out how something really works instead of how it is supposed to work.

What I build

As an independent developer I build custom software for clients who get stuck on standard packages. The biggest project of recent years is a club portal for sports clubs: one system for member administration, class planning, tournaments with live results, membership fees and the club's own website. You can read more about it further on. That portal has since become my own product, with a name and a site of its own: Grip op Sport.

I also have a soft spot for automating quality checks. Tests, pipelines and static analysis do not just save time, they make software demonstrably better. That is what I built up at CCV Shop over the years and what I apply just as rigorously in my own projects.

Where I come from

I started in 2007 with C++ for the Nintendo DS at Triangle Studios, on titles like Tien voor Taal and Suske en Wiske. After that came years as a software engineer and database administrator at Trajectplanner, C# work around Lync and Skype for Business at MSML, and my own venture around sports and travel. From game consoles to business software: the common thread is curiosity about how things fit together.

What keeps me busy

Lately I have been diving into Kubernetes: building my own cluster the GitOps way, deliberately breaking it and getting it back up. That teaches more than any course. What I learn along the way I write down, so the next developer gets there faster.

Curious what I can do for you? Feel free to get in touch.