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Christiaan de Ridder

I am a marketer who builds. 15 years in B2B, ex-AWS EMEA, now Head of Global Marketing at Nordcloud, an IBM company.

I write about building and deciding with AI, and about selling to business in EMEA.

More about how I work

GitHub: github.com/HDEUs
LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/christiaanderidder1

Christiaan de Ridder
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ESSAY 04

I build software I can't read

Six lessons from building production software I can't read — each with a hole in it, because most stories about building with AI flatter the builder.

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9 MIN#ai-workflow#no-code#verification
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ESSAY 03

I took a startup framework built for products and retrofitted it for marketing

5 MIN · #strategy
ESSAY 02

What selling enterprise cloud in EMEA taught me about selling AI

7 MIN · #emea
ESSAY 01

How I cut my CLAUDE.md from 1,090 lines to 83

6 MIN · #claude-code