Tim Drijvers joins Alokai as new chief technology officer

Alokai today announced that Tim Drijvers has joined the company as its new chief technology officer as the leading Frontend as a Service (FEaaS) gears up for its next phase of growth.

Tim’s arrival coincides with Alokai securing $20 million in a new equity round , led by London-based VC Felix Capital. He takes over as CTO from company co-founder Filip Rakowski, who moves to a new position as chief developer experience officer (CDXO). 

With 15 years’ experience working in Software as a Service (SaaS), Tim has been in various software engineering leadership positions for over a decade. He joins Alokai from Sendcloud, an online shipping platform for eCommerce, where he spent seven years as CTO — steering the company through three rounds of investment (Series A - Series C) and expanding the product into eight different markets.

Alokai’s CEO, Patrick Friday, says:

“I’m delighted to have somebody of Tim’s caliber and experience join us at Alokai. We had very ambitious criteria for our next CTO to match our growth plans, which I honestly thought nobody would meet in full. However, Tim came along and impressed us all, emerging as the outstanding candidate in a really rigorous recruitment process. We’re truly excited to see in which direction Tim leads our frontend technology next.”

New Alokai CTO, Tim Drijvers, says:

“Over the last few years, I noticed how enterprises were moving towards headless technologies and heard the name Alokai mentioned on a few occasions. As an engineer by trade, and somebody who really loves working on engineering products, I delved deeper, and quickly understood the buzz around this frontend technology.

“Filip and Alokai’s talented team of engineers have done an incredible job elevating it to become a leading composable commerce solution — and making our FEaaS the toast of the eCommerce developer community. I’m ready for the challenge of maintaining and building on this, and realizing the undoubted growth potential of a product and company that is only at the start of its journey.”

For more information, contact Rob Szmigielski on rob@vuestorefront.io.