Joris van Summeren

Founder & Managing Director (Technology), Sentoo | Enabling Instant A2A Payments in the Caribbean

Curacao

About

Founder and Managing Director of Sentoo, responsible for the company’s technology strategy, platform architecture and overall engineering quality. I focus on building scalable, secure and reliable account-to-account payment infrastructure tailored to the Caribbean market. Together with my co-founder, I lead the organization and oversee the continuous development and operation of a compliant, high-availability payments platform used by businesses across the region.

Experience

  • Founder & Managing Director (Technology) at Sentoo
    Apr 2016 - Present · 10 yrs 3 mos

    Sentoo is a Caribbean-focused FinTech service provider enabling instant account-to-account (A2A) payments. Founded in 2016, Sentoo simplifies payment flows by eliminating manual bank transfers and enabling scalable, affordable and compliant payment solutions for businesses across the region. In this role, I am responsible for Sentoo’s technology strategy, platform architecture, security and engineering execution. I co-lead the organization and oversee the design, development and operation of a highly available payments platform supporting critical business processes for our clients.

  • Senior Software Architect at Blyce
    Mar 2016 - Jun 2020 · 4 yrs 4 mos

    Blyce (formerly known as BearingPoint Caribbean) is a management and technology consulting firm based in Curaçao that specializes in digitizing governments and providing IT solutions that make public services better, faster, and smarter. As a senior software architect, I was in charge of the design and development of several web-based solutions, such as an OECD-compliant data exchange portal for Competent Authorities. These portals are implemented and used by various revenue authorities, and much tax information is exchanged between countries as a result. Furthermore, I played a key role in the acquisition and development of a solution used to increase taxpayer compliance.

  • Founder & Managing Director (Technology) at E-sites Caribbean
    Oct 2012 - Feb 2019 · 6 yrs 5 mos

    E-sites Caribbean originated as a regional subsidiary of the Dutch web development agency E-sites and later evolved into an independent company focused on the former Netherlands Antilles. As Founder and Managing Director, I was responsible for setting up and structuring the organization, leading the development team, and overseeing the delivery of complex websites and back-office applications. I held end-to-end responsibility for technical direction, quality control and execution, and acted as technical advisor on high-impact projects. A key milestone during this period was the successful launch of the Curaçao government’s central web platform.

  • Founder & Managing Director (Technology) at E-sites International
    Apr 2013 - Mar 2016 · 3 yrs

    E-sites International was established as a temporary regional entity to support long-term projects in Suriname. As Founder and Managing Director, I led local operations and delivery, providing website and application development services for established Surinamese companies and organizations. I was responsible for team coordination, technical execution and end-to-end client delivery throughout the project lifecycle.

  • Senior Frontend Developer at E-sites
    Oct 2008 - Oct 2012 · 4 yrs 1 mo

    E-sites is a digital agency based in Breda, Netherlands, that specializes in technically complex custom solutions. Since 1999, they have been at the forefront of embracing and successfully deploying innovations with their team members and clients. They build secure applications, websites, platforms, APIs & mobile apps. They also deploy new technologies like AR/VR, AI, chatbots & intelligent things. At this company, I operated as a team leader, scrum master, and front-end developer. This put me in charge of project standardization and development.