The people you can just pick up the phone and call.

RUAL has been around since 2010 and has grown into a team of 25 specialists: developers, consultants and designers. Small enough to know each other, big enough to build everything ourselves.

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2010

since

25

specialists

1

office, in Brummen

Executive team

On board from the start, and still the ones you get on the phone.

Pick a name to read what this colleague can help you with.

René van Sweeden

Managing Partner

Founder, final say, and the architect of Core.

Founded RUAL and sits on the board: the last call is his, from the technical direction to the financial one. Works end to end on Core and on the other products we build, and leads the engineering team building alongside him. Designs the infrastructure it all runs on and is on the floor when it goes in: the racks in the data centre, the server setup, the Ceph clusters and the automation around them, built with the team. Keeps the day-to-day business running, brings in new ideas, and is the reason this is a team rather than a set of specialists.

What to call René about

Where RUAL is going, and any decision that has to be settled
The architecture of Core and the products on it, from first sketch to release
The infrastructure design: racks, server setup, Ceph clusters and automation
New concepts and prototypes, from idea to working version
Commercial and financial agreements

More builder than networker: on any given day he is in the code, in the racks, or at the table with a customer.

Dominique Henkes

Senior Partner, Infrastructure & Security

On site with customers, and the security of every environment.

Does consultancy at customers: working out what a setup has to do, and what it has to withstand, before anything is built. Guards the network side of it afterwards, ours and theirs alike: firewalls, access, segmentation and what is allowed to talk to what. Assesses new technology before it reaches customers, and is our data protection officer.

What to call Dominique about

Consultancy on site: what a customer's setup has to do
Firewalls, network setup and secure access
The security and the health of a customer environment
Privacy and data protection (DPO)

Good chance you will run into this colleague on site or at a local event.

Jasper van der Wulp

Junior Partner, Engineering & Brand

The technology on your own floor: robot cells, vision, AI and software.

Works on the technical side of customer projects: automation on the floor, robot cells, vision and AI, and the consultancy on the process and the software around it. Takes it from the first test setup through to a line running in production, and picks up a fix in Core when a project he is on needs one. Builds and maintains this website as well, the server behind it included, and owns brand, marketing and PR: how RUAL sounds to the outside.

What to call Jasper about

Robotics, vision and AI inside a customer project
Automation on the shop floor
The technical delivery of an implementation
Consultancy on the process and the software around it
Brand, marketing and PR, and this website itself

If a robot, an AI experiment or a new page on this site turned up somewhere, it usually started here.

Sami Bouchagratan

Junior Partner, Engineering

From the first conversation to the finished build, at customers and across the group.

Sits in on the first conversation and stays on once the building starts, so what is agreed at the table is what gets made, with no translation step in between. Does the same end to end for the other companies within Deverence Group, taking a project from its first outline through to something people work with every day. Keeps the documentation behind this website current alongside it.

What to call Sami about

A first conversation and the outline of a project
What does and does not fit on Core
Building the environment that comes out of it
End-to-end work for the other companies in Deverence Group
The documentation behind this website

The first person you speak to, and not the last: this colleague stays involved long after the introduction.

Suzanne Tersteeg

Director Finance, Consultant

Consultancy at the customer: settling together what gets built.

Sits down at the customer to work out what actually has to be built, down to the detail, thinking it through with them rather than writing down what was asked for. That precision is what you see in the result: software that still stands years later and still does what was agreed. Sets up financial processes and administration with the same exactness, at customers and here.

What to call Suzanne about

Consultancy on site: settling together what gets built
Financial processes and administrative setup
Anticipating what a customer will need next
A delivery that still holds up years later

Good chance you meet this colleague as soon as we start working together.

Marvin Bouma

Associate, Operations

Keeps the day-to-day running smoothly.

Runs office operations, coordinates logistics and supports the team wherever needed. Also the driving force behind the development of Studio.

What to call Marvin about

Office operations and logistics
The development of Studio
An environment colleagues and customers can rely on

Practical and everywhere at once: if something needs arranging, this role is already on it.

Engineering

The hands that build your software, your integrations and your robot cells.

And 20 more colleagues. Developers, consultants and designers. You will meet them soon enough at the office or on the floor.

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Who you will be sitting across from

Three disciplines, one team. Who you speak to depends on where your project stands.

No account managers in between

Here you talk directly to the people who build and run your system. Whoever makes it, supports it.

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