“We’re working at the forefront of an industrial revolution. That’s exciting.”

Koos Verloop, Product Owner

Who we are

We are a team with a range of different backgrounds. What’s brought us together is that we all enjoy breaking away from the constraints of traditional approaches to have the freedom to be truly innovative.

Backing

innius is a wholly owned brand of To-Increase, which is part of the publicly traded Columbus Global group. This has allowed us to operate with the innovation and creative flair of a start-up whilst having a solid financial backing and access to a large pool of talent and expertise.

Technology

innius has been built using microservice architecture and is hosted by Amazon Web Services. Our web and mob apps have been designed and built with Angular. Machines talk to innius using the industrial standards, like OPC UA, DA or via an eWON Flexy modem.

How we started

In October 2014, an internal research project was started. The research project looked into how we could leverage extensive experience in building software for the manufacturing sector together with the emerging trends at that time, namely; big data, cloud computing, mobile, social and IoT. The team and project evolved quickly. By May 2016 the project had delivered a working product to its first customer. innius was born. Since then, innius has been in a state of continual improvement and development.

How we plan to continue

innius already is a finished product and is being used in industry. But we know that we can develop this technology much further still, and that’s what we are working on right now. One of the founding principles behind innius was that it should be developed along the lines of Domain Driven Design. That means that the domain we are designing for, industrial machinery, is the leading factor in what innius is and in which direction it goes. As the industry moves to adopt this type of new technology the domain itself will evolve in both its language and needs, and so the cycle of development continues.

Erik Veen

Commercial Director

More about Erik Veen

Erik Veen has over 25 years of sales experience within the IT sector. He has a huge variety of experience, having worked for companies such as Oracle, Symantec, Sybase Netherlands, De Vries, Interwoven and others. He is an networking expert with a down-to-earth mentality.

Franklin Willemen

Intern

More about Franklin Willemen

After completing his foundation course in Informatics and a year of Philosophy, Franklin Willemen started the Artificial Intelligence program. Before he started the training, he immersed himself in related topics such as Machine Learning. He was looking for a challenging internship where he could apply his knowledge about Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence immediately and found innius to be the ideal place. Besides his studies and work at innius, he likes to travel abroad.

Koos Verloop

Product Owner

More about Koos Verloop

When it comes to customer centered design at innius, Koos Verloop is our enforcer. His deep understanding of both customer’s needs and the technical aspects of the solution, allow him to set and maintain the course in terms of product functionality. He has a background in Lean Six Sigma and a B.eng. degree in Technical Business Administration. Combined with more than 11 years of participating in ERP projects, his specialist areas of interest are in Production, Planning and Logistics. Koos enjoys spending his spare time with his family, restoring historic cars, photography and holidaying in Italy.

John Rijksen

Managing Director

More about John Rijksen

John Rijksen has been leading the innius team in the complete development of innius since its earliest days. Building high quality software solutions, which perfectly suit customer’s needs and help them to achieve their business goals, is his passion. His background in software engineering, Master of Science (MSc), combined with many years of leadership experience empowers the innius team to define strategies for digital transformation and Industry 4.0. John likes to play tennis and reads widely in technology & philosophy. Besides that he likes to have long walks with his dog in the woods.

Mark Rood

Software Engineer

More about Mark Rood

Mark Rood obtained a PhD in Chemistry, and then realized that he liked writing and editing code just as much as mixing compounds and chemicals. His specialism at innius is visualizing complex data in such a way that everyone understands it. At the weekend you will find him improving his house and playing with his cats.

Richard Crowter

UX Designer & Marketing Coordinator

More about Richard Crowter

Richard Crowter has an MDes in Industrial Product Design and excels at taking complicated things and organizing them in such a way that they become straight-forward and intuitive for users. He applies this to innius functionality, specific pages and also to the marketing. When he’s not having fun and games with his children he likes conducting historical research.

Rine le Comte

Chief Technology Officer

More about Rine le Comte

Rine le Comte has been leading the innius team in envisioning, designing and realising the innius solution from its early days until the current time. His background in software engineering combined with more than 25 years of experience in developing state-of-the-art software provides him with technology leadership skills to motivate other members of the innius team to become more accomplished sofware architects and engineers. Rine reads widely in technology & science, history & philosophy and likes to go outdoors for peaceful walks, long hikes or enjoyable bike rides.

Ron van der Wijngaard

Senior Software Engineer

More about Ron van der Wijngaard

Ron van der Wijngaard likes to be known as a software artisan and he was the first person to handcraft some innius code. Professionally he’s well matured with a provenance going back over 15 years. He’s not locally-sourced, and traveling by motorbike can be leave him seasonally sun-dried or dripping. Ron enjoys exotic teas and has a penchant for fine cigars.

Vlad Turturica

Software Engineer

More about Vlad Turturica

Vlad Turturica has a Bachelor’s Degree in Business Informatics, but has drifted steadily towards the world of front end and mobile developers, driven by a desire to build beautiful user experiences. At the end of the day, when he’s done converting coffee into code, he fulfills his duty as an avid traveler, cinephile and gamer.

Wolf Freije

Software Engineer

More about Wolf Freije

Wolf Freije was finalizing his MSc in molecular biology when he reacquainted himself with programming. The pleasure of writing code was immediately evident and he decided to turn things around. After finishing the master programme, he went on to pursue a career in software engineering, landing him a position at innius. Wolf likes to busy himself with a variety of topics and technologies, whilst not being afraid to dive deep into the content. At off-hours he can be found reading, whether it is fiction, fact or philosophy, taking a chance at playing the piano or, teaming up with his father, working hard at restoring their old-timer Citroen DS’.

Vacancy

Software Engineer

More about Vacancy

Team culture

As a team we are small enough to work efficiently and collaborate closely, but large enough to have the required expertise and for everyone to have a healthy work / life balance. Structurally we are quite flat and we use the scrum agile methodology, working on cycles of two week sprints. This combined with a process of continual deployment, gives a good balance between personal freedom and accountability.

The innius team, Richard, Mark, John, Rine, Erik, Ron, Koos, Wolf

What’s in a name?

Ever wondered what our name means? Well, it derives from the phrase ‘Inside Genius’, hence: In.. ..nius. And here’s another secret we’ll let you in on, our logo is the letter ‘G for Genius’ turned 90^o clockwise.

Want to join?

innius is growing and we’re on the lookout for new talent. If you are interested in joining us, please send us a covering letter and CV or resume to info@innius.com.