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Open to selective engagements

Tech leadership, since 1998.

JFE Blagrove is the independent practice of Robertino Blagrove. Tech lead at ECT Rotterdam, senior .NET consultant, and founder of KidsOpStap, Play2College and NexKyn.

Experience
25+ yrs
Current role
Tech Lead
Platforms
3 built
Portrait of Robertino Blagrove

Robertino Blagrove

Tech Lead at ECT Rotterdam (Europe Container Terminals)

Platforms

Products under the JFE Blagrove roof

Alongside tech-lead engagements, we build and run consumer platforms. Each one answers a concrete problem we've run into ourselves.

Student-athletes, parents, and transfer-portal candidates

Play2College.com

Live

The missing toolkit for families navigating NCAA recruitment.

Play2College is a free web platform that helps student-athletes track and organise their college recruitment from first contact through to committing. Built by a parent who went through the process.

  • Track up to 680 Division I and II programs with custom recruitment stages
  • Compare schools across 35+ academic, athletic and cultural criteria
  • Interactive map view, colour-coded by recruitment status
  • Coach-contact log: emails, calls, visits and offers in one place

To be announced

NexKyn.app

In development

A purpose-built networking platform. In development.

NexKyn is a new networking platform, currently in active development. More details will follow closer to launch. If you'd like an early-access notification, drop a note via the contact form.

  • Currently in design and early development
  • Private alpha planned for 2026
  • Built on a modern, privacy-respecting stack
Launch details coming soon

Parents of young children

KidsOpStap.com

In development

Discover what to do with your kids, in your neighbourhood.

KidsOpStap brings events, workshops, playgrounds and family-friendly outings into one visual feed. Parents plan their weekend in minutes instead of browsing a dozen sources.

  • Neighbourhood-level event discovery
  • Curated highlights for school holidays and rainy days
  • Organiser profiles for local businesses and community groups
  • Friendly, parent-first tone. Dutch audience, mobile-first.

What we do

Two modes. One operator.

JFE Blagrove works in two modes. Embedded tech leadership for engineering organisations, and the studio behind our own consumer platforms. Same operator. Same standard.

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 our own platforms. Each one solves a problem we've personally felt: parenting, recruiting, networking.

Let's build something.

For tech-lead engagements, product partnerships, or early access to NexKyn: write directly.