Cahelle Vleeshouwers

Experience

1. Apr 2026 – now

   Product Owner

   Sanoma Learning, 's-Hertogenbosch

   • Product owner on Bingel DC. Bingel is Malmberg's platform for Dutch primary education, used by around 100,000 teachers and 800,000 children.
   • Working on features through stakeholder discussions, creating acceptance criteria and managing the backlog.

2. Apr 2025 – now

   Founder and Product Manager

   Focusverse, focusverse.io

   • A free study app in the browser. Ten universes, roughly five hundred locations, and ten or more people focusing at once on a normal day.
   • Everything from the roadmap down to the React code. Requests come in through a form in the app and go on a public roadmap; six of them have shipped.

3. Sep 2023 – Apr 2026

   Technical Consultant

   Venderion, Eindhoven

   • Ran client sessions to discuss innovation projects with tech companies.
   • Wrote innovation project reports and solution proposals.
   • Secured R&D tax credit (WBSO) grants for more than 50 software and hardware clients.

4. Aug 2019 – Sep 2020

   Software Engineer

   TravPRO Mobile

   • Built an e-learning and virtual events platform in React for the web and React Native for mobile: chat, learning modules and virtual expo halls.
   • Improved the experience in small rounds, working from user feedback and support tickets.

5. 2017 and 2019

   Internships

   ALTEN Netherlands, and Actemium

   • ALTEN, graduation internship, 2019: a proof of concept for burnout prevention, a heart-rate sensor feeding a desktop app that gave stress advice in real time. Literature research and surveys set the requirements for the detection algorithm.
   • Actemium, 2017: a feasibility study into automated guided vehicles for Edulab, plus a two-week engineering bootcamp at Kollmorgen in Sweden.

Education

1. 2021 – 2023

   MSc Human-Technology Interaction

   Eindhoven University of Technology

   • Thesis: Reflection and resource-related prompts on student-facing dashboards. Built learning dashboards on Canvas data in Power BI and ran a three-wave survey study with 39 participants on motivation and engagement.
   • Master's project on tactile spatial acuity, published in Perception in 2024. See Publications below.
   • Preceded by the pre-master in the same programme, 2020 to 2022.

2. 2013 – 2019

   Bachelor, ICT & Technology

   Fontys University of Applied Sciences

   • Innovation routes in ICT & Lifestyle and ICT & Smart Mobile.

3. Minors

   Utrecht University and Medicine Hat College

   • Human-computer interaction at Utrecht, 2022, with courses in computer vision, natural language generation, and mobile interaction and serious gaming.
   • A semester abroad in Canada, 2018: psychology, sociology, organisational behaviour, management theory and English literature.

Certifications

• Professional Scrum Product Owner I, Scrum.org, February 2026. Verify on scrum.org
• Aerial silks teacher training, Studio Skye

Publications

• Plaisier, M. A., Vleeshouwers, C. S. J. M., Boonstra, N., Shi, Y., van der Velden, S. J. J., Vos, W. K., & Kappers, A. M. L. (2024). Vibrotactile spatial acuity on the back. Perception. doi.org/10.1177/03010066241258969

• Product

  • Roadmaps
  • Backlog and prioritisation
  • Stakeholder sessions
  • Scrum, PSPO I
  • Discovery interviews
  • Competitor analysis
  • User stories
  • Impact against effort
  • Technical writing
  • Miro
  • Trello
  • Monday.com
  • Notion
• Research

  • Survey design
  • Usability testing
  • Statistical analysis
  • A/B testing
  • Literature review
  • Scientific writing
  • Stata
• Design

  • Figma
  • Prototyping
  • Interaction design
  • Wireframes
  • InDesign
• Build and data

  • React
  • Tailwind CSS
  • JavaScript
  • Power BI
  • React Native
  • HTML and CSS
  • Supabase
  • Netlify
  • Python
  • Firebase
  • Git
  • SEO
  • Prompt engineering
  • Canvas LMS data
• Engineering

  • C and C++
  • C#
  • Java
  • SQL
  • Linux
  • Unity
  • Android
  • OpenCV
  • TensorFlow
  • Arduino
  • PLC programming
• Languages

  • Dutch
  • English
  • French
  • German

Also

• Aerial silks instructor at the student sports centre in Eindhoven, since November 2024. Weekly classes, plus covering other disciplines when needed.
• Chaired the promo committee at student association SPV Blue from 2019 to 2024, running the website, social media and merchandise. Before that a year on the board as commissioner of external relations, and later two years on the advisory council.
• More about Focusverse: cahelle.com/focusverse.html
• Master's thesis, full PDF: pure.tue.nl