Overview
Van der Veer spent six years leading digital transformation at Kunstmaan before SettleMint, and describes further work building data marketplaces and developer tools. He works in TypeScript and Kubernetes and writes about AI-assisted development workflows. A January 2026 post draws on eighteen months of running AI agents on production code at SettleMint, and a March 2026 post covers bellwether, a tool aimed at the gap between AI-written code and merged pull requests.
Roderik van der Veer is Co-Founder and Chief Technical Officer of SettleMint, a company founded in 2016 with Matthew Van Niekerk. He leads its technical direction, platform architecture, and product development and customer success. It received a €1.8 million Horizon 2020 SME Instrument Phase II grant announced in January 2019 and a €1.591 million VLAIO research and development grant in April 2019, then announced a €16 million Series A on 11 October 2022, co-led by Molten Ventures and OTB with Fujitsu Ventures, Allusion, Bloccelerate and existing investor Medici Ventures, intended to add 60 people globally. Van der Veer stayed in place as Co-Founder and CTO. He has over a decade of experience in digital transformation and speaks about blockchain technology at industry events.
Career history
In the news
- Digital assets need to be run as close to traditional infrastructure as possible, by deeply integrating IBM Haven we do just that.
- We're pleased to announce that SettleMint's Digital Asset Lifecycle Platform (DALP) is now integrated with IBM 𝗗𝗶𝗴𝗶𝘁𝗮𝗹 𝗔𝘀𝘀𝗲𝘁𝘀 𝗛𝗮𝘃𝗲𝗻. The integration brings digital asset custody, transaction controls and lifecycle management together for financial institutions and regulated organizations. Tokenized securities, deposits, equities, treasuries and stablecoins can be issued and managed across their lifecycle, with end-to-end issuance and delivery versus payment (DvP). IBM Digital Asset Haven provides wallet and key
- 𝗟𝗮𝘀𝘁 𝘄𝗲𝗲𝗸, SettleMint 𝗵𝗼𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗱 𝗮𝗻 𝗲𝘅𝗲𝗰𝘂𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝗿𝗼𝘂𝗻𝗱𝘁𝗮𝗯𝗹𝗲 𝗼𝗻 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗙𝘂𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲 𝗼𝗳 𝗜𝗻𝘀𝘁𝗶𝘁𝘂𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝗙𝗶𝗻𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗲: 𝗧𝗼𝗸𝗲𝗻𝗶𝘀𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻, 𝗗𝗶𝗴𝗶𝘁𝗮𝗹 𝗠𝗼𝗻𝗲𝘆 & 𝗡𝗲𝘅𝘁-𝗚𝗲𝗻𝗲𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗠𝗮𝗿𝗸𝗲𝘁 𝗜𝗻𝗳𝗿𝗮𝘀𝘁𝗿𝘂𝗰𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲, 𝗶𝗻 𝗽𝗮𝗿𝘁𝗻𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗵𝗶𝗽 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 FIT - Flanders Investment & Trade 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝘁𝗵𝗲 Embassy of Belgium in the United Kingdom. We had the pleasure of spending a few hours at the House of Flanders, with senior leaders from banks
- 𝗪𝗲'𝗿𝗲 𝗽𝗹𝗲𝗮𝘀𝗲𝗱 𝘁𝗼 𝗮𝗻𝗻𝗼𝘂𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝘁 Fabrizia Z. 𝗵𝗮𝘀 𝗯𝗲𝗲𝗻 𝗮𝗽𝗽𝗼𝗶𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗱 𝗖𝗵𝗶𝗲𝗳 𝗢𝗽𝗲𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗢𝗳𝗳𝗶𝗰𝗲𝗿 𝗮𝘁 𝗦𝗲𝘁𝘁𝗹𝗲𝗠𝗶𝗻𝘁. Fabrizia joined SettleMint in 2022 to build our recruitment function. She soon took on onboarding, people operations and employee experience, and our HR and governance policies, and her scope has kept growing ever since. Today she leads People and Marketing, covering hiring, culture, brand, PR, communications and events. Fabrizia also supports our
- We’re pleased to announce that SettleMint has signed an MoU with Utila to enable financial institutions to bring tokenized assets into secure, scalable production environments. The collaboration brings together SettleMint’s Digital Asset Lifecycle Platform (DALP) and Utila’s secure digital asset infrastructure, combining end-to-end token lifecycle management with MPC wallet security, policy-based governance, settlement capabilities and AI-ready transaction controls. “Institutions are no longer asking whether assets can be issued
- We sat down with Rachel Pether, CFA last month to share what we learned building SettleMint over the last 10 years. It was supposed to be a 15 minute video, but we overshot it a little (by a lot)... I guess compressing a decade of scars and learnings gained by deploying blockchain and digital assets into financial institutions is not so easily done ;)
- September 2026 is a very special month for us at SettleMint, as we mark 𝗮 𝗱𝗲𝗰𝗮𝗱𝗲 𝗼𝗳 𝗱𝗲𝗹𝗶𝘃𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗱𝗶𝗴𝗶𝘁𝗮𝗹 𝗮𝘀𝘀𝗲𝘁𝘀. CEO Adam Popat, Co-Founder & President Matthew Van Niekerk, and Co-Founder & CTO Roderik van der Veer sat down with Rachel Pether, CFA to reflect on 10 years of building for regulated institutions, the lessons learned along the way, and what the future of finance may hold. Here’s a snapshot of this incredibly insightful conversation: 👉 𝗛𝗼𝘄 𝗱𝗶𝗴𝗶𝘁𝗮𝗹 𝗮𝘀𝘀𝗲𝘁𝘀 𝗵𝗮𝘃𝗲
- 10 years in the trenches, and every day strengthens my believe that Matthew Van Niekerk and I made the right decision to start this journey 🚀
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