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Tech leadership, since 1998.

JFE Blagrove is the independent practice of Robertino Blagrove: tech lead at ECT Rotterdam, senior .NET consultant with 27 years of delivery in the Netherlands, and founder of KidsOpStap, Play2College, and NexKyn.

Experience
27 years
Current engagement
ECT Rotterdam
Peak audience
1.2M+
Portrait of Robertino Blagrove

Robertino Blagrove

Tech Lead at ECT Rotterdam (Europe Container Terminals)

Platforms

Platforms under the JFE Blagrove roof

Alongside tech-lead engagements, JFE Blagrove builds and runs consumer platforms. Each one answers a concrete problem Robertino ran into personally.

Student-athletes, parents, and transfer-portal candidates

Play2College.com

Live

The recruitment toolkit NCAA families were missing.

Play2College is a free web platform that organises the full recruitment journey: schools on the radar, side-by-side comparisons, coach-contact logs, campus visits, deadlines, and shared planning with parents, guardians, or agents. Built by a parent who went through the process first-hand.

  • Track 680+ Division I and II programs with custom recruitment stages
  • Compare schools across 35+ academic, athletic, and cultural criteria
  • Interactive map, colour-coded by recruitment status
  • One log for every coach email, call, visit, and offer

Professionals who care about their network

NexKyn.app

In development

A new take on professional networking. Launching 2026.

NexKyn is a new networking platform in active development, rethinking how professionals find, remember, and stay in touch with the people who matter to their career. More details will be shared closer to launch.

  • In design and active development throughout 2026
  • Private alpha planned for later this year
  • Built on a modern, privacy-respecting stack
Launch details coming soon

Parents of young children in the Netherlands

KidsOpStap.com

In development

Every family event in your neighbourhood, on one screen.

KidsOpStap brings events, workshops, playgrounds, and family-friendly outings into one clear, visual feed. Parents plan their weekend in minutes instead of browsing a dozen sources. Built mobile-first for the way parents actually use their phone on a Saturday morning.

  • Neighbourhood-level event discovery
  • Curated highlights for school holidays and rainy-day plans
  • Profiles for local organisers, clubs, and community groups
  • Dutch audience, mobile-first, parent-first tone
Launch details coming soon

What we do

Two modes. One operator.

JFE Blagrove works in two modes: embedded tech leadership for engineering organisations, and a quiet studio behind its own consumer platforms.

More about the practice →
Tech leadership
Embedded tech-lead, architect, or lead-developer roles in mission-critical, often 24/7 environments. Container terminals, energy utilities, universities.
Product work
Founding, building, and running the practice's own platforms. Each one grew out of a problem Robertino personally ran into: parenting, athlete recruitment, professional networking.

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For tech-lead engagements, product partnerships, or early access to NexKyn, send a direct message.